Gou Zai created a blessed land in the immortal abode

Li Chengming, hiding in the shadows, witnessed everything.

"Three mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators against a late-stage Qi Refining Ironscale Lizard have little chance of winning, but they should be able to severely injure the Ironscale Lizard."

His gaze fell on the three jade boxes on the stone platform, and his mind raced.

"Once they've both been severely weakened, I can reap the benefits."

The battle on the field intensified.

Although the elder brother's bronze mirror magic weapon was quite powerful, it required a lot of spiritual energy to activate each time. After several activations, his aura weakened significantly.

Although the iron-scaled lizard had several wounds, they were only superficial and did not cause any real damage. Instead, they provoked it to become even more ferocious.

"Brother, this thing is too hard, we can't break it!" the cultivator who released the fireball shouted breathlessly.

The eldest brother gritted his teeth and took out a talisman from his sleeve, its surface glowing with spiritual light.

This talisman is considered a top-grade talisman even among Qi Refining level talismans.

"Back off!"

He shouted and hurled the talisman at the iron-scaled lizard.

The talisman transformed into a crimson light in the air and exploded with a bang, unleashing a torrential downpour of blazing flames that engulfed the Ironscale Lizard.

As the flames subsided, a large patch of the Ironscale Lizard's scales was blasted off, revealing charred flesh. With a mournful roar, it turned and ran, disappearing into a passage deep within the stone chamber.

"What a fine talisman!" Li Chengming's pupils contracted.

He truly hadn't expected that this person would possess such a powerful talisman.

"Fortunately, I didn't act rashly, otherwise, if that talisman had landed on me, I would have surely died."

"Brother, that beast got away. Should we chase after it?"

"Why are you chasing me? Just grab the stuff and leave. I don't have a second one of these talismans."

As the elder brother spoke, a hint of pain flashed across his face. This talisman had cost him five spirit stones, comparable to a full-force attack from a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

"If what's in this jade box doesn't make me recoup my costs today, I'll tear this cave down!"

The three walked toward the stone platform.

Li Chengming's heart sank.

If they take the jade box, I'll have made a wasted trip.

"We can't hide it anymore!" Li Chengming's eyes flashed sharply, and he immediately took out the black gold bow.

"Taking advantage of the fact that these three have exhausted their spiritual energy and have not yet recovered, this is the perfect opportunity to launch a sneak attack."

He placed his fingers on the bowstring, gathering his magical power. As the bowstring was drawn back, a deep blue water arrow slowly materialized.

Li Chengming set his sights on the one with the strongest cultivation among the three.

call out!

A sound suddenly rang out in the sealed cave.

The three immediately went on high alert, and when they turned around, they saw a white light flying towards them.

"Oh no! Quick..."

Before he could finish speaking, the man's head exploded like a watermelon, blood and foam splattering everywhere.

The underlings on both sides were immediately soaked.

"Big brother! Big brother!"

"Who's there! Come out!"

The remaining two reacted differently.

Li Chengming remained silent, but fired another arrow from the shadows.

The two, whose spiritual energy was exhausted, were no match for Li Chengming, who was hiding in the shadows. He easily defeated them in less than three arrows.

Then, he came out of his hiding place and first searched the three people on the ground.

They obtained three magical artifacts, several bottles of pills to restore spiritual energy, and three talismans of average quality.

"Not bad, these three have some family wealth."

After Li Chengming put all these things into his immortal abode, he turned his attention to the three jade boxes on the stone platform.

He hesitated for a moment, then cast a spell.

boom!

The stone platform was destroyed, and the jade box fell to the ground.

"There are no traps."

Li Chengming breathed a sigh of relief, then picked up the jade box from the ground, intending to open it, but found that he couldn't open it.

"Is there a restriction on this jade box?" Li Chengming raised an eyebrow.

Just as he was worrying about how to break the seal, a series of heavy, rapid footsteps came from inside the cave.

Li Chengming looked in the direction the sound came from and saw that the iron-scaled lizard that had been driven back earlier had run back.

Not only that, it also had two Ironscale Lizards at the mid-stage of Qi Refining behind it.

"You invited the whole family?"

Li Chengming was startled and, without the slightest hesitation, turned to run.

However, he was fast, but the Ironscale Lizard was even faster, blocking the exit route first.

Seeing this, Li Chengming had no choice but to hide in his immortal abode.

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Inside the Immortal Mansion.

Seeing the Ironscale Lizard furiously tearing the three rogue cultivators' corpses apart inside the cave, Li Chengming breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was close."

The three-headed iron-scaled lizards consist of one in the late stage of Qi Refining and two in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

With his cultivation at the fourth level of Qi Refining, he would have had no chance of escaping without a celestial abode.

"However, I can only leave after these three iron-scaled lizards leave."

The Immortal Abode is an independent space, so Li Chengming will appear in the same place he enters from and exits from.

However, judging from the way the three iron-scaled lizards were crawling around in the cave, they probably wouldn't leave anytime soon.

"Never mind, let's figure out how to open this jade box first."

Li Chengming took out the jade box, and just as he was about to try to break the seal on it, he found that the jade box opened by itself.

"Huh, what's going on?"

Although Li Chengming had some doubts, the jade box opened by itself, which saved him time and effort.

So they took the contents out of the jade box.

The first jade box contained a pure white pill.

After examining it carefully for a moment, Li Chengming said with a surprised expression:

"It's actually a Qi-Nourishing Pill!"

This is good stuff.

The Qi Cultivation Pill is a pill used by cultivators in the Qi Refining stage to break through bottlenecks, and it is especially suitable for cultivators below the sixth level of Qi Refining.

One Qi-Nourishing Pill can save at least a year of arduous cultivation, and if you're lucky, you might even be able to break through a minor realm directly.

He carefully took out the pill, held it to his nose and smelled it; a faint medicinal fragrance permeated his heart and soul.

"It's true, and the quality is quite good."

Li Chengming was overjoyed. With this Qi-cultivating pill, he estimated that he would soon be able to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

He carefully put away the Peiyuan Pill and picked up the second small jade box.

The jade box was opened, and inside was a jade slip containing a cultivation technique.

The Method of Stopping War and Seeking Gold.

Li Chengming's spiritual consciousness entered into it and read it carefully.

"It's actually a fifth-grade Foundation Establishment cultivation technique!"

A fifth-grade cultivation technique is already an excellent foundation-building technique, and it even involves the secrets of the Purple Mansion.

"Unfortunately, this cultivation method belongs to the Metal Virtue path, which I cannot cultivate," Li Chengming sighed.

But then he thought about it again.

"This cultivation technique could be used to trade with the Kong family. Perhaps we can get a fourth or fifth grade Water Virtue cultivation technique and a piece of jade marrow in return."

Although the Kong family primarily cultivated the Fire element, many of their disciples also cultivated the Metal element.

Moreover, for powerful clans and immortal sects, high-grade cultivation techniques are always a welcome addition.

"Hmm, not bad, not bad."

Li Chengming was very satisfied with the contents of the first two jade boxes, and then his gaze fell on the last jade box.