Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 199 [Spiritual Vein: lv1 (Upgradeable)]

As soon as Ji Yuan released his divine sense, he saw the figure walking towards the end of the passage.

Weaving Clouds.

She was seen clutching her injured chest, stumbling towards Ji Yuan. Every few steps, she would use a stealth technique to increase her speed.

Ji Yuan's heart tightened, and his outstretched divine sense immediately detected the pursuers behind him.

It turned out to be Xuanweizi from Medicine King Valley and Danxia from Joy Palace!

They were actually chasing Zhiyun?

Why would they be chasing Zhiyun!

Ji Yuan didn't know what had happened here, but to make them kill each other, and even engage in such a thing as chasing and killing in a place like a spiritual vein... I absolutely must not get involved.

run!

I have to run!

Ji Yuan, who had just sat down, got up and used the escape technique "Following Shadows". But just as he was leaving, he heard Zhi Yun's weak voice in his mind.

"They were eroding the spiritual vein and stealing spirit stones. I caught them in the act, and now they're chasing after me."

"Brother Wuyou, save me!"

Ji Yuan paused for a moment after getting up, but then left the place at an extremely fast speed, heading deeper into the spiritual vein.

When Zhiyun finally found him, she stopped upon seeing this.

It stopped running.

She had placed all her hopes for survival on Ji Yuan, thinking that if he could hold them off for a while and then call the others over, she would have a chance to live.

But who would have thought... that the Lord of Worry-Free Island would actually run away... run away!

Danxia and Xuanweizi, who were chasing after them, slowed down when they saw that Zhiyun had stopped running away. They each summoned their own magical artifacts.

"It seems your lover isn't willing to save you."

Danxia said with a light laugh.

With a gloomy expression, Xuanweizi threw out the precious pearl in his hand, saying, "Enough with the nonsense, just kill him!"

A wisp of mist rose from Zhiyun's body again, but it only blocked the pearl for a moment. Then the pearl smashed into her chest again, shattering her ribs and sending her flying, crashing into the stone wall.

Her body fell to the ground like a rag doll, and she stopped struggling.

Spitting out clots of blood, she gave a bitter laugh and stammered, "You...you two...about things, I...I told...Wu...Wuyou, I...I couldn't hide it from you..."

Before she could finish speaking, Danxia casually cast a fireball, smashing Zhiyun's head to pieces.

Xuanweizi shook the sleeve of his left hand.

No other movements were observed, but the clothes were seen billowing inside the sleeves, as if something alive was hiding there.

A moment later, a wisp of white smoke rose from Zhiyun's body, flew into Xuanweizi's left sleeve, and disappeared.

"What do we do now?"

Danxia looked at Xuanweizi beside her with concern.

"kill!"

Xuanweizi retracted the precious pearl with his right hand, raised and lowered his left hand, making a chopping motion.

"If word gets out that what we're doing is going to get out, we'll definitely lose our heads. The more people who know, the more dangerous it becomes. So no matter what, the Lord of Worry-Free Island must die."

Danxia hesitated for a moment, but finally said:

"In my opinion, the Island Master of Wuyou Island may not know this. Based on my understanding of Zhiyun's personality, it's more likely that she saw Wuyou was unwilling to save him, so she wanted to drag him down with her before she died."

"Are you willing to bet?"

Xuanweizi chuckled and asked.

Danxia was speechless.

"Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free."

"What do we do after this? We almost got exposed last time we killed that Linmu Island Master, and now we've killed two more..." Danxia was a little scared.

The veins on Xuanweizi's forehead throbbed, and he said through gritted teeth, his hands clenched into fists:

"We have to kill them all first. If we kill them, they can still live. At worst, we can just say we were greedy for money. If we're not killed, we're dead!"

"Too."

"Hurry up and go find someone!"

Xuanweizi transmitted a message and shouted.

Danxia shuddered and hurriedly used her escape technique to fly forward. Xuanweizi watched her back, a barely perceptible ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.

"This woman is indeed remarkable, but she's far too incapable of handling responsibility. Keeping her around will likely only bring trouble. We'll have to see if we can find an opportunity to create a weakness when we're killing the Island Lord of Worry-Free Island, so he can kill her."

Upon realizing this, Xuanweizi hurriedly gave chase.

……

Deep within the spiritual vein, in a crevice formed by the collapse of a giant rock.

The black smoke gathered and finally transformed into a human figure. As soon as he appeared, Ji Yuan concealed his aura and then put on the shroud given to him by Senior Brother Ma.

He immediately concealed his aura to the extreme.

He was also able to recall what Zhiyun had just said.

"Xuanweizi and Danxia are actually consuming the spiritual veins! Is there really someone with this kind of ability? Damn, geniuses are everywhere!"

As Ji Yuan pondered this matter, ideas inevitably began to form in his mind.

"No matter what methods they use, as long as I get my hands on them... the [Spirit Vein] construction will be settled, won't it?"

"Zhiyun's words before she died shouldn't be a lie. Besides, it's normal that she said those words to me to drag me into this mess; it's like a drowning person grasping at a last straw. If I were in her shoes, I would have said the same thing."

"It's normal for her to say that, and similarly, it's normal for me to want to save her life rather than help her."

If that's the case, then we must kill someone.

They also had to kill two Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivators at the same time.

If this were outside, Ji Yuan would face some pressure, but not too much. He has many methods at his disposal, and if he uses them to his fullest extent, he is confident that he can kill two mid-Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

But now that we're inside this spiritual vein, we have to keep the noise down as low as possible once we start making a move.

It must not be noticed by outsiders.

Killing two mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators silently is difficult.

Ji Yuan began to silently ponder his own abilities, wondering what method he could use to silently kill two mid-Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

Soon, Ji Yuan heard the sounds coming from the passageway outside.

"Brother Wuyou, stop hiding. We're not going to kill you. Why don't you come out and have a chat?" Xuanweizi's voice came from inside.

"Our killing of Zhiyun was a personal grudge, and it has nothing to do with you."

"How about we settle this privately? We'll give you some spirit stones, and you can pretend you never saw anything about it, okay?"

"..."

Xuanweizi walked and shouted, constantly searching back and forth with his divine sense, but to no avail.

It was as if the Lord of Worry-Free Island had vanished into thin air; no matter how Xuanweizi searched, he could not find him.

Damn!

"If he doesn't come out, I reckon Zhiyun really told him the truth before she died."

Danxia transmitted her voice to Xuanweizi.

"Um."

Xuanweizi nodded calmly. "Brother Wuyou, did Zhiyun say something to you before she died?"

"If you knew, you should come out and talk to us. This is a big deal, a deal that could make you rich for a lifetime."

After Xuanweizi finished speaking, he walked a distance forward and was about to speak again when he suddenly found an extremely tall man appearing out of thin air in front of him.

The man was wearing a tattered black robe, with a shroud draped over it. He was disheveled and looked as if he had been hiding underground for who knows how long.

The aura emanating from him... was shrouded in ghostly energy, and his cultivation level was unclear, but just looking at him gave people a heavy sense of pressure, as if it was impossible to look directly at him.

This feeling was something Xuanweizi had never experienced even from his own master!

The problem is, who is this person, and why is there such a terrifying demonic cultivator underground?

Hadn't the Golden Core cultivators of the Three Immortals Sect already thoroughly investigated this spiritual vein? How come there are still such people hiding here...? In a daze, Xuanweizi suddenly understood something.

If even a Golden Core cultivator couldn't find anything during their thorough investigation, doesn't that mean this demonic cultivator's cultivation level is higher than those Golden Core cultivators?!

"Screw your mother!"

Ji Yuan looked at Xuan Weizi, who seemed to be in a daze and was momentarily stunned, and then... suddenly slapped him across the face.

With his Foundation Establishment stage physique, he slapped out with all his might.

Xuanweizi, who was so close, didn't even have time to dodge.

"puff--"

He spat out a mouthful of teeth, his body spun several times in the air, and finally slammed heavily against the stone wall.

It was exactly the same as when he fought Zhiyun before.

Danxia, ​​who was already frightened, was even more terrified when she saw that this "senior" could have such power with a casual slap without even using spiritual energy. She immediately knelt down.

"Senior, this matter has nothing to do with me. I... I dare not disturb your peaceful cultivation."

"It's all because of Xuanweizi that I was forced to come here. I didn't want to come here at all."

Husbands and wives are birds of the same forest, and when disaster strikes, they fly separately.

Not to mention that Danxia and Xuanweizi were not husband and wife, nor were they Daoist partners; it was just a fleeting, beautiful romance.

Ji Yuan glanced at her coldly without saying a word.

After all, Ji Yuan himself hadn't expected that the combination of the [Shape-Changing Talisman], the [Yin Ghost Sect Ring], and the [Shroud] would produce such a miraculous effect.

But then I thought about it again, and it made sense. If I were in that situation, I would be scared too.

Walking in what he thought was an extremely safe place, a senior demonic cultivator suddenly appeared, whose cultivation level was unclear, but who exerted immense pressure on him...

Ji Yuan felt that his first reaction would probably be to use the wine cup that Hua Yaoyue had given him, and then release the Sky Shuttle to escape.

If you still can't escape after this, then... just like Danxia, ​​beg for mercy.

There was no other way.

"waste!"

Xuanweizi got up from the ground and roared fiercely at Danxia, ​​who had betrayed him. Immediately, spiritual energy fluctuations appeared on his body.

"Oh?"

Ji Yuan glanced at Xuan Weizi with a half-smile.

Immediately afterward, black smoke billowed from his body. "Come on, I won't make things difficult for you. You have to choose one of the two of you; only one of you can leave alive. Choose who you are."

Danxia immediately looked at Xuanweizi.

The latter struggled to his feet, glared fiercely, and growled, "You really are stupid, aren't you? You really think he'll let us go?!"

"They just want to have some fun with us."

"Looks like you're quite clever." The black mist released by Ji Yuan had already covered most of the passageway; the Yin Ghost Array... could be formed with a single thought.

"Unfortunately, I don't like people who are too smart."

Ji Yuan mustered all his energy, but on the surface he still pretended to be indifferent. He interlaced his fingers and flicked his wrists, making a "crackling" sound.

"Shut up, you son of a bitch! Go to hell!!!"

Xuanweizi roared and charged... A black sable, about an arm's length long, suddenly rushed out from his previously empty sleeve. After it came out, the sable stood on Xuanweizi's shoulder and inhaled at Ji Yuan.

In an instant, Ji Yuan felt as if his soul was being attracted, and just as he was about to be sucked away, the Soul-Suppressing Bell trembled slightly.

A golden light spread out.

His spirit remained as steady as a mountain.

"That's it?" Ji Yuan chuckled. "You dare to use such a useless method as devouring souls?"

"Wh...what..."

Xuanweizi felt as if his sky had collapsed. The method he was so confident he could use to seize a chance of survival had been so easily neutralized.

I don't believe it, let's try again!

He activated the black sable on his shoulder, which suddenly inhaled at Ji Yuan, and as a result... it attracted two Yin ghosts, no, it was an endless stream of Yin ghosts!

These ghosts arrived and instantly devoured Xuanweizi's body.

Xuanweizi focused all his attention on the black sable, and since he hadn't initially thought he could withstand the attack from this demonic cultivator, he didn't defend himself at all.

They didn't even take out the most basic protective artifacts.

But when these ghosts started to devour his body, he realized that these ghosts... weren't as strong as he had imagined!

The two strongest among them were only at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Suddenly, he seemed to realize something.

"Ugh—"

As soon as he opened his mouth, a ghost seized the opportunity to crawl inside, rendering him speechless.

He tried to send a telepathic message, but the moment he released his divine sense, he discovered that a flying sword had silently crept up to his side.

Then, shrouded in black mist, it drew near, right to my ear.

Then he groaned, felt a sharp pain in his head, and then lost consciousness.

With Xuanweizi dead, Ji Yuan naturally wanted to capture that black sable. This kind of demonic beast that could absorb people's souls was much more useful than the giant toad or the ice dragon!

But just as he was about to take action, he discovered that the sable had suddenly kicked its four legs and died.

"Damn it!"

Ji Yuan, seeing this, knew exactly what was going on. It turned out that Xuan Weizi had signed a master-slave symbiotic contract with the black sable.

When the master dies, the slave dies.

With Xuanweizi dead, the black sable naturally died as well.

Danxia watched the whole thing unfold without offering any resistance. Only after she thought the Yin ghosts had completely killed Xuanweizi did she speak, her voice trembling.

"You, you are the Lord of Worry-Free Island, right?"

"Please don't kill me, I really don't want to die..."

Danxia spoke with tears streaming down her face, then took off her robe, revealing her graceful figure underneath.

Ji Yuan didn't even glance at it twice.

"I know, I know." Danxia wiped away her tears and hurriedly said, "Xuanweizi has a black ball of thread. He said it was given to him by a senior. He uses that black ball of thread to steal spirit stones from the spiritual veins, but it's very slow. We've been working on it for more than half a year, and we've only managed to steal less than ten feet. The location is in the mine where we usually stay."

"Alright, you can go now."

Ji Yuan sighed, "Remember to keep today's events a secret."

"Okay, okay."

Danxia nodded repeatedly, "Fellow Daoist, rest assured, what happened today is known only to Heaven and Earth, you..."

Before the female cultivator from the Joyful Palace could finish speaking, her eyes widened, and a flying sword pierced through her body from between her eyebrows. Her eyes were filled with disbelief.

"You...you...why did you kill...kill me..."

Danxia spoke haltingly.

Ji Yuan didn't waste any words.

The Frost Sword that had just pierced her brow plunged into her chest again, shattering her heart completely.

At this point, her once towering and alluring snow-capped peaks had become a blurry mass of flesh and blood.

As it turns out, no matter how beautiful a woman is, she'll remain the same after she dies.

With a thought, Ji Yuan collected Danxia's corpse, Xuanweizi's corpse, and the black sable's corpse as well, leaving none behind.

Then he took off the ring and put away the Yin Ghost Flag.

Before he finished, he didn't forget to refine the remnants of the two people's souls into Yin spirits and put them into the Thousand Soul Banner to keep them company.

A moment later, in another part of the spiritual vein, Ji Yuan, who had returned to normal, took out the black thread ball that Danxia had spoken of from Xuan Weizi's storage bag.

This thing... does look like a black ball of yarn, but it looks more like a living thing.

Held in Ji Yuan's hand, the densely packed threads struggled and swayed as if trying to escape.

"This thing is kind of weird."

Ji Yuan put it back into his storage bag. He had no time to examine Xuan Weizi's storage bag. His priority was to check the small portion of the spiritual vein they had stolen.

Let's see if we can... take it for ourselves!

With this thought in mind, Ji Yuan summoned his aerial ark and flew close to the ground within the spiritual vein.

More than half an hour later.

He arrived at the shallow part of the spiritual vein and stood at the entrance of the mine where Xuanweizi and Danxia often met. Ji Yuan had passed by this entrance several times a year ago when he was on duty here, but at that time he always heard indescribable sounds coming from inside.

Looking back now, that was probably just a cover-up by the two of them.

Actually... they were secretly mining here!

As Ji Yuan stepped inside, a quick scan with his divine sense revealed the anomaly of the mine: there was a small illusion array inside.

'No wonder we weren't noticed even though we're so close to the exit; there's a protective formation there.'

Knowing that it was too late to break the second-tier illusion array, Ji Yuan searched through Xuan Weizi's storage bag for a while and finally found the array flag that controlled the array.

The spiritual energy was injected, passed through the formation, and finally arrived at the depths of the mine.

On the surface, everything appeared normal, but when Ji Yuan carefully examined it with his divine sense, he discovered that one of the stone walls had been seeped into by countless cracks.

It looks like it was pierced by needles, one by one.

Without a doubt, this was the masterpiece of that ball of yarn.

Ji Yuan went forward to investigate and found that the area was still controlled by the spiritual vein array. It seemed that if he wanted to successfully steal it, he would still have to rely on the ball of thread.

He took it out of his storage bag, infused it with spiritual energy, and the ball of thread immediately came to life, with countless threads sticking out from it.

Ji Yuan manipulated it and placed it on the stone wall.

Then, without any further manipulation, these threads seemed to automatically find their way, climbing outwards and finally disappearing into the gaps.

Ji Yuan's divine sense followed them closely, in the time it took to breathe.

He then discovered that the stone wall in front of him had actually broken free from the formation.

In Ji Yuan's field of vision, a line of small characters appeared that only he could see.

[Spirit Vein: lv1 (upgradeable)]

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