BXBX NOVEL Chapter 73 - 73: You Dare Touch My Fortune?!
After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
In a secluded corner of the island, a gate of light opened.
“The relic is located directly beneath this island. I’ve prepared a contingency there. Coat yourself with the powder we bought before heading out to sea, and the mutated Qingxin Wood won’t attack you,” Qingyu instructed. “Understood,” Jiang Fenghuo nodded, following the instructions.
Once ready, he stepped through the gate of light.
In the dark, spacious underground cavern.
Accompanied by a flash of white light, Jiang Fenghuo appeared on a small cliff.
Checking the solid ground beneath his feet and the quiet surroundings, Jiang Fenghuo felt reassured.
However, his heart skipped a beat when he looked up and saw the scene in the distance.
Qingyu boasted, “Little Jiang, didn’t expect this, did you? The Qingxin Wood I planted, nourished by the dragon whale’s carcass, has grown over the years, and now it’s… Eh?”
The translucent soul inside the clay figurine widened its eyes in shock, utilizing its spiritual power to “see” the underground space.
Jiang Fenghuo pointed ahead, somewhat dazed, “Elder Qing, is that the tree you planted?”
At the center of the pit stood an extremely tall… Wooden pillar.
The pillar was straight and smooth, its bark completely stripped off, and where the “crown” should have been, it was completely bare, without a single branch.
The pit was filled with wood chips and leafy branches, almost completely covering the dragon whale’s carcass.
“How could this be?!” Qingyu was shocked. “Quick, check the top, see if the heart of the Qingxin Wood is still there!”
“Yes!” Jiang Fenghuo, realizing the urgency, swiftly took to the air on his
sword.
Having reached the Foundation Building stage, flying was not difficult for him. In just a few breaths, he arrived at the crown of the Qingxin Wood.
After some searching, he found a deep hole in the upper part of the wooden pillar.
“Someone got here before us and took what was ours,” Qingyu’s voice carried a hint of coldness.
“We need to go in now. The legacy of the Heavenly Emperor Xu has not yet emerged. I have left my contingencies inside the dragon whale’s carcass…” The figure within the clay figurine looked grim.
“Those who dare touch my fortune obviously don’t know what death is!”
Inside the dragon whale’s carcass.
“How beautiful,” Lu Xuan admired, holding the heart of the mutated Qingxin Wood in his hands, examining it closely.
The altered Qingxin Wood was towering, but its heart was only the size of a fist, the most essence-concentrated part of the tree.
Due to absorbing the dragon whale’s blood, the heart was blood-red, crystal clear, resembling a blood diamond.
The group remained silent, the atmosphere somewhat tense.
They had opened the portal in the dragon whale’s mouth and entered the “tomb chamber” inside.
As Yushou An had suspected, the ancestral tomb described in the family records was indeed buried within the dragon whale’s carcass.
The dragon whale had been powerful in life and its body, transformed into a magical artifact, had not decomposed.
Entering the merman ancestor’s tomb went smoothly, despite a few array tests, which they passed without much danger.
The reason for the silence was that no one dared to speak to Lu Xuan.
Before entering the dragon whale, they were attacked by the mutated Qingxin Wood.
The thousand-zhang tall tree, though lacking sentience, possessed a killing instinct.
Its branches, sharp and strong as spears and numbering in the tens of thousands, launched a simultaneous attack, overwhelming the cultivators. Even cutting down dozens of branches was a futile effort.
Just as they struggled, thinking their end was near, the young man in white threw his sword.
A flash of white light shot towards the Qingxin Wood.
In just three breaths:
In the first breath, the Qingxin Wood’s bark was stripped off, leaving a clean trunk.
In the second breath, all its branches were severed, leaving it bare.
In the third breath, the white jade sword pierced through the trunk, returning with the heart of the tree.
The scattered cultivators were dumbfounded, buried under the fallen branches, taking a while to emerge.
Lu Xuan gently patted the hilt of his sword as a sign of encouragement.
As they resumed their journey into the dragon whale, their spirits were unsettled.
“Lu… Senior Lu,” Yushou An hesitated before speaking, but Lu Xuan stopped him.
“This…”
Yushou An was momentarily stunned, “Then, thank you, Senior.”
“There’s no need for formalities,” Lu Xuan turned to the others, smiling, “Like you, I was once guided by seniors. Now that I have some abilities, it’s only right to help the younger generation.”
“Thank you for the lesson, Senior!”
The cultivators understood Lu Xuan’s implication, bowing in unison.
Although Lu Xuan hadn’t explicitly stated it, they inferred the message of reciprocating kindness and mentorship.
Lu Xuan, looking towards the tomb chamber’s entrance, took out a golden shovel from his storage artifact and said, “Let’s go, everyone.”
Inside the merman ancestor’s tomb.
“Yes, stand over there, and you go to that spot, both of you channel your spiritual power at the same time…”
“Step back three times, move left, then after a breath, lie down, and roll to the right, that’s the formation’s eye…”
“The exit of the maze is in the Xun position. What? You mermen don’t know what Xun is… Head southeast, stop when I say…”
“Such a simple formation, obviously meant for passing on a legacy…”
“This deadly formation, you can’t get through with your current strength, wait, I’ll smash it…”
Half an hour later.
After Lu Xuan led the cultivators, overcoming all obstacles and challenges like an unstoppable force, to the main burial chamber, everyone looked at him differently.
During their journey to this point, not only did Lu Xuan break through formations, but he also imparted much knowledge to them.
The cultivators felt like they had been intensely fed with formation knowledge by a great senior.
So much information, they were almost overwhelmed, knowledge almost spilling out.
Lu Xuan assured them it was tine, as cultivators have excellent memories. It they couldn’t understand it now, they could record it and digest it slowly later.
The main burial chamber was behind a jade door, smooth and warm to the touch. Lu Xuan stepped forward and pushed it open. The interior of the chamber was revealed to everyone.
Inside, there were two coffins..