Chapter 153 - The Land of Treasures, Shadow Island!
Chapter 153: The Land of Treasures, Shadow Island!
It was a very ancient jade slip, and the content inside was called the Spirit Guiding technique.
Simply put, it was a secret technique that relied on mediums to communicate and sense. This short man’s cultivation talent was extremely weak. He had reached the tenth level of spirit gathering by relying on pills, and his combat strength wasn’t any stronger than ordinary cultivators.
This thing did not have big practicality, so Victor casually put it into his storage ring.
“Let’s go and find a cave to rest. I need to meditate to recover my spiritual power,” Victor said to Bai Yulan.
Bai Yulan nodded her head submissively. Victor’s series of performances just now had shocked her greatly. With his cultivation in the spirit gathering realm, he had devoured the Void Magic Stone without dying and proceeded to kill Hu Zhi within five moves.
However, there was one thing that made Bai Yulan feel very strange. Logically speaking, the Void Magic Stone was a supreme-grade spirit item that only foundation establishment cultivators could consume. Its medicinal effects were self-explainable.
On the other hand, Victor was only in the spirit gathering realm. After consuming it, his cultivation should have advanced by leaps and bounds, directly breaking through to the foundation establishment stage. Why did he remain in the spirit gathering stage?
Bai Yulan really couldn’t understand this point, but she was sensible enough to not ask further.
The two soon found a hidden cave. The sun had just risen.
In front of the cave, there was a deep pool, and a clear mountain spring water flowed into it.
“I’ll take a bath. You can wait for me in the cave.”
Victor’s body was covered in large patches of blood scabs, and his clothes were tattered. He looked too terrible and was in need of a bath.
“Okay.” Bai Yulan nodded and went into the cave obediently.
Ten minutes later, Victor had finished bathing and changed into a new set of clothes from his storage ring. He ate a powerful elixir to replenish his spiritual power. After meditating for a while, his spiritual power had almost recovered.
At this time, Victor called Bai Yulan out of the cave.
Bai Yulan was stunned when she saw Victor after washing off the blood and scabs.
Now, Victor had a new body. His skin was delicate, and his figure was well-proportioned. He was like an elegant cheetah, full of strength.
He had also grown taller, which made him look stronger.
His facial features seemed to have undergone some delicate changes. Although Victor already looked extraordinary, it was actually because of the sharp aura between his eyebrows.
After all, Victor’s appearance was actually not that outstanding. But now, after undergoing a complete transformation, his brows had become as sharp as swords, his eyes were like the stars in the sky, and his face had a cold expression that looked as if it was carved out of jade.
Together with his plain green unlined clothes, standing under the sun, it made Victor have an extraordinary aura, which made Bai Yulan, who was standing at the side, stunned.
“Can you tell me about the secret treasure of the Bright Moon sect, Miss Bai?” Victor glanced at Bai Yulan and said lightly.
“Secret treasure…”
Bai Yulan had a complicated look on her face when she heard what Victor had mentioned. She didn’t expect that one day, the secret treasure that her master had entrusted to her for the revival of the Bright Moon Sect would be handed over to an outsider.
Bai Yulan knew that Victor had taken such a big risk just for the Void Magic Stone.
However, if it weren’t for Victor’s help, she might not have been able to escape this disaster, let alone increase her strength and revive the Bright Moon Sect.
Thinking of this, Bai Yulan felt a little better. She said in a low voice, “The key to the secret treasure is with me, and the location of the treasure is on Shadow Island in the East China Sea.”
“Shadow Island?”
Victor was stunned for a moment. When he was at Zhong Ding Mountain, he had read many books, and one of them mentioned that Shadow Island was a dangerous place in the East China Sea.
It was said that in ancient times, there was a great war that killed countless experts and gathered deadly qi all year round.
From then on, Shadow Island was filled with gusts of cold wind and black fog all year round. Many powerful ghosts grew out of it.
The chilly wind alone was already difficult for spirit gathering stage cultivators to resist. The aura of death from the ghosts could even threaten foundation establishment realm cultivators, not to mention the existence of the king of ghosts, who was comparable to peak foundation establishment realm cultivators.
Thinking of this, Victor frowned. “The secret treasures of Bright Moon Sect are actually stored there?”
“Yes, there are lesser people on the Shadow Island. It’s much safer there.”.
“A thousand years ago, when the East continent encircled and annihilated the entire Land of the Netherworld, the Alliance Army didn’t win in terms of scale.”
“Although the Bright Moon Sect gained a lot from that battle, their losses were also quite heavy. A large number of sect cultivators died. If they had stored the secret treasures within the Bright Moon sect, the treasures would have been ransacked over the years.”
Bai Yulan sighed as she spoke up to this point. She was probably recalling the glorious history of the Bright Moon Sect back then, and also lamenting the destruction of the Bright Moon Sect.
Victor nodded. That was indeed the case. Otherwise, the Bright Moon Sect wouldn’t have been able to keep the secret treasure after the annihilation.
“However… even if it’s on Shadow Island, it won’t be able to stop cultivators above the middle stage of the foundation establishment realm, right?”
“Cultivators above the middle stage of the foundation establishment realm will naturally not encounter any danger when entering Shadow Island. However, the black rocks on Shadow Island can block spiritual sense.
“The hidden door to the treasures is buried underground and is undetectable. In addition to that, Shadow Island has a vast area. If there is no one to lead the way, even if we searched for a few years on the Shadow Island, we will not be able to find the location of our sect’s treasure.”
“I see.”
Victor understood in his heart. However, the biggest problem for him was that he was not familiar with Shadow Island. It would not be good if he stumbled into a dangerous place.
Bai Yulan saw Victor’s worry and explained, “Although Shadow Island is dangerous, the sect had left some techniques to avoid danger, so there shouldn’t be too much danger.”
“Then I’ll have to trouble Miss Bai to lead the way. But I heard from Miss Bai that there are 12 Void Magic Stones in the Bright Moon Sect’s secret treasures?
“Besides the Void Magic Stones, there must be many cultivation techniques, pills, spirit items, spirit tools, spirit stones, and so on?”
Bai Yulan bit her lips and nodded. Although a third-grade mystical realm sect that had existed for more than a thousand years had declined, its foundation was still extremely rich.
“Miss Bai, you said before that if I made a move, you would share the secret treasure with me. Then, shall we discuss the issue of distribution?” Victor said casually.
Bai Yulan became nervous when she heard this. She was in an extremely weak position and had almost no rights to speak.
Moreover, she was the one who had asked Victor for help in exchange for her sharing of the secret treasure with him. In the end, Victor had indeed saved her.
Although she was very reluctant to part with it, she was too ashamed to refuse. She only hoped that Victor wouldn’t be too harsh on her.
Victor thought for a moment, he said, “I only want a set of basic cultivation techniques from the cultivation technique jade slip. I don’t want any other spirit stones or spirit tools. If there are foundation establishment pills, I will keep some. As for the other treasures in the secret treasure, we can discuss it later. But for the final 12 Void Magic Stones, I want ten!”
Victor did it for the Void Magic Stones. This was his biggest hope of completing the foundation establishment. He needed to ask for ten. Coupled with the foundation establishment pills, he should be able to complete the foundation establishment realm.