Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

The opening in front of Chen Liang was neither particularly large nor small.

However, the fierce and menacing statues on the cave walls are quite eye-catching, giving people a strange sense of coldness.

However, this did not affect Chen Liang, so he simply ignored it.

After regaining his appearance, he transformed into a gray-blue streak of light and rushed down.

At the bottom of the cave, there is a dark tunnel leading downwards. Traces of a great battle are faintly visible within, as many skeletons remain.

Passing through this tunnel leads to an underground paradise. Most of it is waterlogged, and littered with collapsed stone pillars and broken stone statues, with only one small island retaining relatively intact buildings.

The light that Chen Liang transformed into passed through tunnels and waterlogged areas of underground caves, arriving directly at the center of the small island.

When Chen Liang's figure emerged from the gray-blue light, he was greeted by a pool of ancient stalactites that exuded a delicate fragrance. In the center of the pool, a three-colored lotus flower, its bud yet to bloom, stood quietly.

Most strikingly, a rainbow of colors swirled above the three-colored lotus, creating a truly magnificent sight.

At this moment, even an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator would probably exclaim in surprise.

"Seven-Colored Lotus?!"

The Seven-Colored Lotus is a legendary medicinal herb that often only appears in myths. It has many effects, including regenerating severed limbs and greatly enhancing a cultivator's cultivation level.

In addition to its other benefits, the Seven-Colored Lotus also possesses the effects of detoxification, nourishing the spirit, strengthening the body, improving spiritual root aptitude, and removing curses. Therefore, it can be considered the most coveted adventure for all cultivators, bar none.

Unfortunately, the Seven-Colored Lotus in front of Chen Liang was actually just a demonic crown disguised as a demonic crown snake.

In Chen Liang's divine sense, the demonic crowned serpent hiding in the stalactite pool was clearly visible, so Chen Liang quickly turned his gaze to a skeleton next to the stalactite pool.

The skeleton was crystal clear, indicating that it possessed considerable cultivation in its lifetime. Unfortunately, several of its fingers were broken, likely bitten off by the demonic serpent hiding in the stalactite pool.

Moreover, its head was pierced by a small golden thunder bamboo arrow, which was a fatal wound.

However, Chen Liang wasn't looking at the skeleton itself, but rather at the remnant soul of the Xuan Bone hidden within it.

Therefore, after sensing Chen Liang's gaze, the remnant soul of the Xuan Bone quickly appeared.

He appeared as a ghostly figure with a pale blue hue and slightly reddish eyes. A grayish-black ghostly mist surrounded him, which, to cultivators who could not see through it, might have seemed terrifying to this remnant soul.

But in Chen Liang's eyes, he was just an ordinary-looking middle-aged man.

After Xuan Gu appeared, he cautiously sized up Chen Liang for a moment, then spoke in a hoarse voice, "This fellow Daoist, are you a newly joined cultivator?"

Chen Liang: "Yes, it's only been two years since I advanced to the Nascent Soul realm."

Xuan Gu: "Oh, so you're a young friend. May I ask your name and which master you studied under?"

"Chen Liang, a rogue cultivator from Tianxing City."

Xuan Gu: "A rogue cultivator? Heh, fellow Daoist, you jest. How could such a young Nascent Soul cultivator be a rogue cultivator?"

Since Chen Liang's Primordial Spiritual Power was able to effectively stimulate the growth of spiritual herbs, he has stimulated the growth of some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and refined them into Youth-Preserving Pills for himself and the five women around him.

Therefore, Chen Liang still looks very young.

He ignored Xuan Gu's doubts and simply said, "Alright, Xuan Gu, stop testing me. I'm not here to play the good guy by helping you out of this predicament."

I've just reached the Nascent Soul stage, and I lack the cultivation techniques and suitable elixir formulas for that stage. Therefore, you must give me these two treasures.

Furthermore, you must produce a rare item that I can use. Only then will I release your remnant soul.

Xuan Gu chuckled softly upon hearing this, as if he had anticipated it.

He said, "Of course, I must repay the life-saving grace. It's alright to talk about the cultivation techniques and usable pill formulas, but I didn't bring this rare item with me."

Chen Liang: "Tell me first, what kind of strange object is it?"

Xuan Gu couldn't help but glance at Chen Liang with a teasing look, and laughed, "One piece, Yin Yang True Gold."

Chen Liang couldn't help but raise an eyebrow and said, "I didn't expect you to even have something like this. That's right, it is indeed the rare item I need."

Xuan Gu: "Hehehe, but I didn't bring it with me. Here, my storage magic item is right here. Take a look for yourself if you don't believe me."

After saying that, a crystal-clear rib flew out from the chest of the Xuan Gu Remnant Soul; it was a storage artifact he had created.

The storage artifact did not contain the Yin-Yang True Gold, but it did contain the complete "Mysterious Yin Technique" and the last remaining possessions of Xuan Gu. However, Xuan Gu believed he had Chen Liang under his control, so he openly displayed it.

What Xuan Gu didn't expect was that Chen Liang actually released his divine sense to carefully examine the ribs and scanned the entire underground cave twice.

During this process, Chen Liang, relying on his photographic memory, memorized the entire "Mysterious Yin Manual" of Xuan Gu.

Xuan Gu stared at Chen Liang, who was completely unpredictable, in astonishment. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Junior, now that you've read my 'Mysterious Yin Technique,' I won't give you the Yin-Yang True Gold anymore."

Chen Liang snapped his fingers, a wisp of crimson flame appearing on them, and said, "Then this junior will not let Senior Xuan Gu leave either."

When the crimson flames appeared, Xuan Gu's proud Xuan Soul Demon Body instinctively trembled.

So Xuan Gu looked at the wisp of flame at Chen Liang's fingertip with some horror and said, "This is... the Sacred Flame of the Underworld?! How is this possible?!"

How could a cultivator possibly control such fire from the underworld?

The Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, also known as the Sacred Fire of the Underworld, is unique in that it can ignite any remaining malevolent energy or lingering attachments of living beings in the vicinity.

Because of this characteristic, the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire has become the greatest nemesis of all ghost cultivators and even all evil cultivators, with even the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder having to obediently rank behind it.

The remnant soul of Xuan Gu was still standing there in shock and uncertainty, while Chen Liang stared at the wisp of flame at his fingertips and said in a mysterious tone, "Perhaps it's because I once escaped from hell that I brought this kind of flame with me."

Immediately, Chen Liang put away the wisp of red lotus karmic fire, leaving Xuan Gu feeling both relieved and reluctant to part with it.

Chen Liang looked at Xuan Gu again and said, "Alright, first write down the cultivation techniques and usable pill formulas for the Nascent Soul stage that you know."

This time, Xuan Gu didn't cause any trouble. He obediently inscribed his Nascent Soul cultivation techniques and usable pill formulas into a jade slip and then handed it to Chen Liang.

Chen Liang had already seen most of the contents when he scanned the rib storage artifact, but there was still a part of the rather insightful content that he had not seen in the storage artifact.

This was exactly what Chen Liang expected, so he put the jade slip away.