391: Episode 18: The Ranking Battle of the Seven Dragons from Seven Countries, Chapter 120: The Spirit in the Black Box (Part 1)_1 391: Episode 18: The Ranking Battle of the Seven Dragons from Seven Countries, Chapter 120: The Spirit in the Black Box (Part 1)_1 When Ye Yinzhu returned to the inn, the sun had already begun to rise slowly from the east.
Despite not having slept all night, he didn’t feel any worse for wear.
Anyway, he was just waiting at the inn, so after a simple breakfast with the other three, he returned to his room to begin his cultivation.
Strangely enough, the spiritual fluctuation he felt during last night’s cultivation pletely disappeared during the day.
No matter how carefully Ye Yinzhu probed, there wasn’t a single clue.
Could it be that the spiritual fluctuation only appeared at night?
A day passed quickly, and when night fell again, Ye Yinzhu opened his eyes from his cultivation.
The effects of cultivating in Faran were indeed astonishing; his Magic Power, which had been stagnating since he entered the Seventh Rank Qinxin Sword, had made quite some progress in recent days.
Of course, he didn’t know that the improvement in Mana wasn’t solely because he came to Faran, but also because of his own breakthrough as well as the help of the Divine Source Magic Robe.
With both plementing each other, without the constraint of bottlenecks, his Zither Magic cultivation naturally improved much faster.
Ye Yinzhu rolled up the hem of his Divine Source Robe and took out a set of black gear from the Sumeru Divine Ring, which he put on over it, prepared before ing to Faran.
Investigating the Divine Dragon Relics was his most important purpose for this trip.
Also taken from the Sumeru Divine Ring was an item he had never used before, the mask that Zi had given him after leaving the blue sky and sea with Zi Li.
At first, the mask, along with his Space Ring, was lost, and he only recovered it after Sura returned everything that was inside the ring.
In Faran, the place with the strongest power on the Continent, hiding his identity was the most important thing.
After doing all this, Ye Yinzhu quietly slipped out of the room.
This time, he didn’t walk out of the inn ostentatiously.
Under the effect of Zhu Douqi, he followed the dark corners of the street towards the location he had explored the night before.
The Douqi, pressed by Xi Duofu to reach the Zi rank, also allowed Ye Yinzhu to truly appreciate the convenience of a Zi rank Powerhouse.
Although the amount of Douqi hadn’t changed, after reaching the Zi rank, he clearly felt whether it was being applied to his movement or for attack and defense, it was all stronger than before by more than just a notch.
After leaving the inn, everything went very smoothly.
With his agile body, he swiftly approached the direction of the Dark Tower.
The streets of Faran were as quiet as the day before, and his timing was perfect as the shops on the streets had all closed down.
Turning a street corner and with only a few hundred meters to his destination, a troop of Faran knights just happened to e around the corner of the street at the same time.
How could it be such a coincidence?
There wasn’t much cover on the wide street, and Ye Yinzhu reacted swiftly, his hand flashed green, and Green Silk silently extended, inserting directly into the eaves of a nearby house.
With a strong pull on his wrist, his body quickly adherened to the eaves, holding his breath and concentrating, he concealed every trace of his presence, even lowering his body temperature to match that of the air.
He couldn’t afford to take any chances in front of these formidable Faran knights.
The Faran knights clad in heavy armor managed to move without making a single sound.
Ye Yinzhu didn’t look at them from under the eaves, because he knew that once a Martial Artist reached a certain level of strength, even a glance could draw their attention.
Therefore, he simply relied on sensing the spiritual presence to gauge the position of the Faran knights.
Only after the Faran knights passed to the other side of the street and Ye Yinzhu confirmed there were no other presences nearby did he land down from the eaves.
After a quick survey of his surroundings, he moved quickly along the shadowy edge of the street.
Encountering no further trouble, he finally arrived at the location he had explored the night before.
He found a corner to sit down in, activated his spiritual power to enter a state of cultivation, and began to search for the spiritual fluctuation he discovered last night.
Indeed, the spiritual fluctuation appeared once again, with no difference in intensity from last night.
This must be the place.
Ye Yinzhu took a deep breath, ing out of his state of cultivation, but he didn’t act immediately.
Clearly, the spiritual fluctuation was emanating from underground, but how could he find the entrance?
Within a hundred-meter radius, the intensity of the spiritual fluctuation was the same, meaning he couldn’t locate the doorway just based on the fluctuation.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have returned empty-handed last night.
After careful consideration, Ye Yinzhu decided to use the simplest and most direct method.
If there was no doorway, then he would just create one.
As he was about to summon the Sword of Nox to forcibly break through the ground from this dark corner, suddenly, two familiar soul fluctuations came through.
It was the soul fluctuation of the Gold Armor Forbidden Insects.
Shan and Lei, the two little creatures, ever since relying on the Blood Covenant to attach to Ye Yinzhu, spent their days sleeping and absorbing energy from Ye Yinzhu.
They didn’t even want to e out when Ye Yinzhu wanted them to get some air, only lending their power in a few instances when he needed them most.
Under the effect of the Blood Covenant, their Soul Powers were already connected to Ye Yinzhu.
Sensing what Ye Yinzhu was about to do, the two Gold Armor Forbidden Insects immediately conveyed a message to help him.
Ye Yinzhu, curious, asked through the soul connection, “How are you going to help me?”
Right at this moment, two warm streams emerged on his arms.
Looking down, Ye Yinzhu realized that, without knowing, his arms and hands had turned a pale gold color, and at the position of his five fingers, there was a silver thread extending up his arms.
“Are they suggesting that I use my hands to dig through the earth?” Ye Yinzhu immediately understood the two little creatures’ intentions.
But could digging with his hands be faster than using the Sword of Nox?
With doubt in his mind, Ye Yinzhu subconsciously pressed his hands to the ground, and then an extraordinary scene unfolded.
The moment his palms touched the soil, they soundlessly sunk into the ground as if it weren’t hard rock but soft tofu instead.
As the saying goes, mice are natural burrowers.
Although the Gold Armor Forbidden Insect is a rank Ten Demon Beast, they are insects after all, and what insect does not burrow?
Not only are they adept at it, but they are also experts in this field.
After his hands had sunk into the ground, a strange thing happened.
Shan and Lei sent an inquiring signal to Ye Yinzhu, and with his consent, the control of Ye Yinzhu’s arms instantly transferred to the two little creatures.
The pale gold arms bizarrely twisted on the surface, and then, carrying Ye Yinzhu’s entire body, they burrowed into the ground.
What was even more astonishing was that as soon as Ye Yinzhu tunneled into the ground from this dark corner, a pale gold energy spontaneously smoothed over the surface, making it look as though Ye Yinzhu had vanished into thin air rather than digging down from there.
Ye Yinzhu closed his eyes since he could see nothing while underground anyway.
Relying on the sensation of that spiritual fluctuation, he municated the direction to Shan and Lei, while his body rapidly advanced driven by the movements of his arms.
Whether it was mud or rock, anything encountered by those arms, now possessed by Shan and Lei, would be pushed aside.
Within moments, Ye Yinzhu had already burrowed deep underground.
That day when he was soaking in the river with Xiang Luan, Ye Yinzhu had noticed a change in his body.
Although he didn’t know it was the effect of having reached the realm of heaven and humanity patible, he could distinctly feel that his body wasn’t limited to breathing through his mouth and nose—every pore also had the ability to breathe.
So, even submerged in the river, he didn’t feel suffocated.
Now, underground, it was just like that day in the river.
Although the air was thin below ground, with all his pores open, he filtered the sparse air from the soil into his body.
Despite a sensation of suffocation, survival was not an issue.
With no need to direct his own body forward, Ye Yinzhu’s spiritual power directly entered a state of cultivation, carefully sensing the spiritual fluctuation.
As he had predicted, the deeper he went underground, the stronger the spiritual fluctuation became, and the guidance on direction became clearer.
Ye Yinzhu didn’t know how deep he had gone when that spiritual fluctuation had turned into a powerful force stimulating his brain.
Suddenly, his body became light, and he had drilled out of the soil.
His body nimbly flipped in mid-air, and upon landing, Ye Yinzhu could tell that he had fallen about three meters.
Beneath his feet was solid rock.
Surrounded by darkness, the spiritual fluctuation had now bee as potent as sound.
Ye Yinzhu vaguely sensed that this was a tunnel.
The tunnel’s air was very polluted, so Ye Yinzhu continued to hold his breath, breathing solely through his pores.
With a wave of his right hand, the Dragon Soul Ring transformed the Sword of Nox into his grasp.
The milky glow, though not strong, was sufficient for illumination for someone with Ye Yinzhu’s eyesight.
He looked around.
This was indeed a tunnel—square in shape, with thick rock walls all around.
From the construction, one could tell it was an artificially carved passage.
Although he did not know how far below the surface he was, it was clear that constructing such a tunnel deep underground was not something ordinary people could achieve.
But what was this place?
With the light from the Sword of Nox and his energy flowing throughout his entire body, Ye Yinzhu cautiously moved forward.
(To be continued.
For more, please visit .
More chapters are available there, and your support for the author and the original works is appreciated!)
User Comments
0 comments from readers