Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

In other words, Jiang Shi possesses the aptitude of five spiritual roots, profound magical power, and extremely strong recovery ability, which is why he can travel by using only his magical power to operate the superior-grade magic artifact, the Water-Stabilizing Pearl.

Time flies. Jiang Shi continued his cultivation while traveling, and a week passed.

On that very day, Jiang Shi was sitting on a boat when he suddenly felt a strong aquatic energy emanating from the river.

This watery spiritual energy flashed by in an instant, and since it was mixed in with the ever-flowing river, it would be difficult for an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator to detect it.

Jiang Shi possesses a superior-grade magic artifact, the Water-Stabilizing Pearl. With this treasure, he can be considered the master of rivers and lakes within the Foundation Establishment stage. Naturally, this bit of water spiritual energy could not escape his detection.

"This water-based spiritual energy must be a second-grade spiritual item," Jiang Shi thought to himself.

They immediately decided to go and take a look.

However, since the purpose is to search for treasure, bringing Old Man Jiang and Jiang Yu along would be a burden. It would be better to let them stay behind, find a quiet place, hide, and wait for his return from the treasure hunt.

"Master, you won't abandon Yu'er, will you?" Jiang Yu looked at Jiang Shi with teary eyes when she heard that he was leaving.

"Strive to cultivate diligently and wait for your master to return," Jiang Shi said expressionlessly.

After saying this, Jiang Shi turned and left, leaving behind an object: a Xiaoze Golden Sword flew out of Jiang Shi's storage bag and landed in front of Jiang Yu.

"If there is danger, draw this golden sword."

This Xiaoze Golden Sword came from the Stone Tower Secret Realm. He killed many Foundation Establishment stage cultivators and obtained it from their storage bags.

The Xiaoze Golden Sword is the best communication tool among ordinary treasures. It is inexpensive but has excellent functions. Its speed is so fast that even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator cannot stop it.

Jiang Yu held the Xiaoze Golden Sword tightly in his arms, unable to put it down for a long time.

After Jiang Shi left, he floated on the river. Instead of taking the waterway, he submerged and swam quickly like a fish, yet without attracting the attention of others.

Having acquired the superior magical artifact, the Water-Stabilizing Pearl, he possesses an advantage over ordinary people underwater.

Jiang Shi would naturally not give up this advantage. As long as he was underwater, he was not afraid even if Biluogugu Master Hua Luoyu came.

Soon, he was getting closer and closer to the faintly visible water-based spiritual energy.

There, a ten-meter-long snake swam in the water. The snake was full of spiritual energy, and at a glance, it was a spirit snake with the cultivation of the late Foundation Establishment stage.

The presence of a Foundation Establishment stage spirit snake here indicates that there is definitely a problem.

Jiang Shi did not rashly use his spiritual sense to investigate. He first used a high-grade magic artifact to fix the water bead and sense everything underwater.

Foundation Establishment cultivators may have limited skills in using spiritual sense, but if they were to use it to investigate, it would naturally attract the attention of the spirit snake.

Just as Jiang Shi was carefully investigating, a strange movement came from the surface of the water.

Jiang Shi remained calm and cautiously peered upwards.

Two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were seen standing in mid-air, conversing.

"Fellow Daoist Liang, how have you been?" Elder Hu of Biluo Valley greeted him familiarly.

The person he greeted was none other than Hall Master Liang, the head of the outer guard hall of the Qingyun Sect.

Jiang Shi happened to know this person; he was a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator from the Liang family, one of the three great families of Qingyun Sect.

He was a Grand Master in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

The other person was someone Jiang Shi also knew; he was Elder Hu from Biluo Valley, whom Jiang Shi had met once before.

"I heard that the head of your Qingyun Sect's Hall of Affairs died while you were away. I never expected that Fellow Daoist Liang would still dare to go out on his own after such a major event," Elder Hu of Biluo Valley said with a hint of sarcasm.

"If you can come, why can't I? If I don't come, this treasure of the river will probably be monopolized by you." Hall Master Liang snorted coldly and said in a deep voice.

"Three years ago, the three of us made a pact to retrieve the treasure together today. If you hadn't come, don't blame me," Elder Hu said.

It turns out that Elder Hu of Biluo Valley, Hall Master Liang of Qingyun Sect, and Elder Chen of Lingxu Sect had encountered this treasure three years ago, but at that time the treasure was not yet fully mature and would take another three years to obtain.

From that day on, the three Foundation Establishment stage cultivators made a pact to come and claim the treasure together three years later. If they did not come, the treasure would belong to whoever did.

This is why Liang, the hall master of Qingyun Sect, risked coming here after the deaths of Lu Chuanxing and Lu Yuanfeng, two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

He was after that second-grade spiritual artifact located beneath the river.

"It seems that Fellow Daoist Chen from Lingxu Sect will be unable to come today," Elder Hu of Biluo Valley said with great surprise.

With one less person coming, the number of spiritual items that can be distributed will naturally be greater.

"That Chen fellow is too cowardly. The Canglin region is so vast, how could he be so careless as to encounter danger?" Liang, the hall master of Qingyun Sect, said disdainfully.

In the Canglin region, Golden Core cultivators generally do not take action, and the three major sects superficially cooperate, so there has been no danger here for many years.

That is to say, the demonic puppets in the Misty Mansion are still somewhat dangerous.

This is why Master Liang is not afraid.

That is to say, the demonic puppets in the Misty Mansion are still somewhat dangerous.

This is why Master Liang is not afraid.

"Haha, that's true. However, we still need to be careful. Come on, let's hurry up and start making our move. Let's lure away the late Foundation Establishment stage spirit snake below the river before we go to seize the treasure, lest things get complicated."

Elder Hu spoke up.

Underwater, Jiang Shi smiled upon hearing this.

"Since you're courting death, then don't blame me."

Jiang Shi suddenly leaped out of the water, and a sword aura shot out from between his brows, heading straight for Elder Hu.

This sword energy originated from the silver sword pellet within Jiang Shi's sea of ​​consciousness.

As he unleashed his sword energy, Jiang Shi pointed his finger, and several pale blue threads appeared out of thin air, wrapping around Liang, the hall master of Qingyun Sect.

Master Liang was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he completely lost the demeanor of a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

The sword energy Jiang Shi unleashed terrified Hall Master Liang, who was all too familiar with the sword energy of Lu Yuanfeng, a sword cultivator from his own sect.

The fact that this person can unleash sword energy indicates that he is the murderer who killed Lu Yuanfeng.

If the opponent could kill even the sword cultivator Lu Yuanfeng, wouldn't killing a mere early Foundation Establishment cultivator be as easy as killing a chicken?

And indeed, the binding thread that Jiang Shi sent directly entangled Master Liang.

Master Liang channeled his magic to try and unleash a fire-based spell to resist, but Jiang Shi's binding threads were upgraded.

To resist with fire-based magic, one would need to be at least at the late Foundation Establishment stage, or possess the power of a fully mastered Earth-grade fire-based technique.

Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for a cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment to burn through the binding threads with their magical power alone.

The binding threads relentlessly decomposed and devoured Master Liang's magical power. At this point, he had no ability to fight back and became a lamb to the slaughter.

After dealing with Liang, the head of the hall, Jiang Shi turned and pounced on another person.

Elder Hu of Biluo Valley was injured by Jiang Shi's sword energy and was currently lying on the water.