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"Found it!"

Ignoring the sweat pouring down his face, Zhou Wei excitedly pointed to a spot about ten feet to the east of Li Shen:

"There it is, beneath that blue stone, the core of the formation is right there!"

All three of them looked in the same direction.

Li Shen immediately commanded the Soul-Devouring Ants to attack the array's core.

He then reached into his storage bag and scanned it with his spiritual energy, but found nothing that he could readily use to cover the Soul-Eating Ants' movements. So he threw out a few fireball talismans and ice cone talismans as a formality to destroy the withered green vines coiled around them.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions rang out one after another, flying debris and the ground began to shake slightly.

The vines thrashed wildly as if they had gone mad.

Seeing this, Li Shen quickly added another fireball talisman. Immediately afterward, several vines stopped moving and visibly withered, eventually becoming dry and lifeless.

The path ahead of the Soul-Devouring Ants became unobstructed, and under Li Shen's command, they entered the cave first.

Seeing that the formation had been broken, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhou Wei resumed his previous arrogant demeanor, walked past Li Shen, glanced at him, and stopped in front of the blue stone.

"The core of ancient formations like these is often a very rare spiritual object rich in spiritual energy, such as the core of a high-level demon beast or a mid-grade spirit stone."

He squatted down and started rummaging through things as he spoke.

After groping around for a while, I couldn't touch anything.

"strangeness......"

Zhou Wei exclaimed in surprise and released his divine sense to investigate carefully, only to find that there was nothing below.

"Gone? How is that possible!"

Zhou Wei exclaimed in surprise.

Li Shen was taken aback at first upon hearing this, then suddenly realized:

"It must have been directly devoured by the Soul-Eating Ants, but after so many years, its spiritual energy has almost dissipated, so it shouldn't be worth much."

After thinking it over, Li Shen calmly looked cautiously into the cave.

This Foundation Establishment senior must be extraordinary to be able to set up such a formation within a formation; it's best to be cautious.

A short while later, Zhou Wei stood up, his face somewhat pale, but he still forced an indifferent expression:

"Most likely, the spiritual energy maintaining the formation was completely exhausted and turned to dust. Since the formation has been broken, the commotion just now was quite loud. If others notice and come over, it will be troublesome. Let's go into the cave first. With such a formation protecting the outer perimeter, what's hidden inside... will surely not disappoint."

"Fellow Daoist Zhou is right."

Chen Qiao echoed in agreement.

Liu Feng nodded in agreement.

The four of them continued walking into the crevice in the same order as before.

The entire passageway was long, narrow, and pitch black.

Liu Feng immediately threw a lighting talisman upwards, which had an illumination effect.

The talisman spontaneously combusted, illuminating the entire passageway.

Li Shen observed the tunnel walls on both sides. They were smooth and flat, clearly carved out by hand. There were still very faint spiritual energy fluctuations on the surface. He probed into them with his divine sense but found no clues of any restrictive mechanisms.

The connection with the Soul-Eating Ants hadn't been severed, meaning the area ahead was safe.

After walking about a hundred paces, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

A stone chamber, roughly three zhang square, appeared before them.

The illuminating talisman's afterglow reached just the exit of the passageway, but the interior stone walls were inlaid with naturally glowing fragments of fluorite, and the interior furnishings gradually became clear.

The stone chamber has a simple layout. Against the wall is a stone bed, a stone table, two stone stools, and a dusty tea set on the table.

In addition, there is a futon in the central area, on which sits a skeleton in an old Taoist robe. In front of the skeleton, from left to right, are a jade slip, a dusty gray cloth bag, and a long sword with a dull color.

Behind the skeleton, embedded in the stone wall, was a wooden frame with varying degrees of cracks, and seven boxes were scattered on top of it.

Zhou Wei and Liu Feng exchanged a barely perceptible glance, their eyes filled with surprise and delight.

Li Shen's heart stirred slightly. On the surface, he looked at the skeletons and shelves in the stone chamber, but out of the corner of his eye, he had already keenly noticed the right side.

It was a tranquil, still spring, no more than a foot in diameter. The water was crystal clear, with a faint white mist floating on its surface. And in the center of the spring, a strangely colored flower floated quietly.

Surrounded by spiritual mist, the flower appears to float above a spiritual spring, its petals layered upon each other, presenting a dreamlike gradient of colors.

A faint, sweet fragrance emanated from the heart of the flower, subtly dispelling the musty and stale smell in the stone room.

Li Shen frowned. He had smelled the fragrance of the flowers as soon as he entered the place. To be on the safe side, he quietly took out a Mind-Concentrating Pill and swallowed it.

Zhou Wei, Liu Feng, and Chen Qiao also noticed the flower.

Zhou Wei exclaimed in surprise:

"Could this flower be the Five-Colored Lotus?! Nurtured by the spiritual spring, it must be at least three hundred years old."

Three hundred years? ??

Both Liu Feng and Chen Qiao were shaken.

For cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, a spiritual plant that is a hundred years old is already a rare treasure, and a three-hundred-year-old one is something they wouldn't even dare to dream of.

Although Li Shen was tempted by what he heard, he quickly calmed down.

The Twin Ice Jade Lotus that he had previously obtained from Song Changshan was still quietly lying in his storage bag.

According to the knowledge of spiritual plants he learned from Liu Rou, it was a five-hundred-year-old spiritual plant.

Therefore, although this Five-Colored Lotus was three hundred years old, it did not make Li Shen lose his vigilance.

He immediately commanded the spirit-devouring ants hidden underground to spread beneath the skull and the spirit spring.

Based on previous experience, these two places are most likely to be shady.

Then he saw Liu Feng walk a few steps toward Lingquan before being stopped by Zhou Wei.

"Fellow Daoist Liu, don't be anxious."

Zhou Wei suppressed his excitement and said calmly:

"It seems that the treasures here are what's in front of us. As agreed, if we find them here, we'll divide them equally. I'll choose first, but I still need to explore the area first to confirm whether there are any remaining restrictions before we distribute them."

Upon hearing this, Liu Feng was displeased, but due to the other party's background, he had no choice but to stop and agree:

"Fellow Daoist Zhou broke the array and restrictions outside the cave, so this is only natural."

Chen Qiao turned to look at Li Shen, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in agreement.

Li Shen remained noncommittal, having already anticipated this outcome, and simply said:

"Fellow Daoist Zhou is light and agile."

He didn't move, casually standing near the exit of the passageway, watching Zhou Wei activate the compass artifact he had used earlier to investigate.

After a long while, he put the compass away, breathed a sigh of relief, and his gaze fell on the jade slip and the cloth bag, his mind racing.

Judging from the array within the array outside, this Foundation Establishment senior should also be an array master, and this jade slip probably contains the inheritance of array techniques.

Although the cloth bag appears simple, it is very likely a storage bag.

The storage bag of a Foundation Establishment cultivator... it's a tough choice indeed.

Zhou Wei's gaze wandered, and greed welled up in his heart.

He licked his lips and made a decision.

He wants them all!

He reached out to grab the storage bag, but the moment his fingertips touched it, something unexpected happened!