Chapter 493: Chapter 447: Nine Dragons Suppress the Abyss

Rushing too fiercely, Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi both fell to the ground, sharp things scraping across their bodies, even Jiang Yuebai’s skin, akin to Dragon Scale, felt like it might be cut.

She got up and saw nothing but white bones, stretching endlessly, like a massive burial pit.

Hiss——

Lu Nanzhi let out a sharp intake of breath, and Jiang Yuebai realized many sharp bones had pierced Lu Nanzhi in various places, with one bone going directly through under her calf.

"Anan, don’t move!"

Jiang Yuebai had a Mermaid Silk’s Magical Robe, and her exposed skin only showed white scratches, while Lu Nanzhi’s Body Refining Skill was slightly inferior and couldn’t withstand these sharp bones.

"These all seem to be Dragon Bones, and from Dragons with high Cultivation, you should first raise a Protective Sword Gang to shield from these Dragon Bones."

Lu Nanzhi frowned but did as told, and Jiang Yuebai quickly used White Vine to dig around, clearing out a vacant area.

Then, she released Little Green and Five Ghosts on guard and quickly used Little Demon Technique to heal Lu Nanzhi’s wounds.

"How is it, does it still hurt?"

Lu Nanzhi shook her head, "Got used to it, this pain is nothing."

Jiang Yuebai looked at her with full of heartache, pulling her up to check the surroundings together.

"Eh? There’s actually Spiritual Energy here."

Jiang Yuebai then noticed that she could feel the presence of Spiritual Energy, and besides Spiritual Energy, Demonic Qi was also mingled in it, coexisting in a very strange way, her Golden Core rotating on its own, absorbing Spiritual Energy but not mistakenly absorbing Demonic Qi.

Jiang Yuebai felt that the Demonic Qi there was "tamed" and very "gentle," although its presence was gentle, the Demonic Qi itself remained violent and turbid.

Lu Nanzhi was the same, operating Cultivation Technique without touching the Spiritual Energy, as if the Spiritual Energy and Demonic Qi could automatically recognize their Cultivation Techniques.

Jiang Yuebai picked up a section of white bone to inspect, "They are indeed Dragon Bones, weathered severely, at least over a hundred years old, and judging by the looks, they are from various Dragons. Quickly gather them, just these Dragon Bones can rent us a house for hundreds of years."

Jiang Yuebai hurriedly summoned the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven, released the swarm and Little Demon, and also brought out the Puppet responsible for cultivating the Spiritual Field to transport the Dragon Bones.

"Dragon Bones are sharp, everyone be very careful, first select the good ones for the warehouse, the less appealing ones pile them up somewhere else, quick, quick, quick, let’s move! Little Green, you and Five Ghosts keep guard around and protect everyone’s safety."

The Little Demons, with the swarm, Mountain Monkeys, and Puppets, were huffing and puffing, transporting Dragon Bones and tossing them into the suspended Lotus Platform, working fervently.

Items placed on the central ground would not be automatically refined by the Lotus Platform; she could choose what to refine and what not to.

Lu Nanzhi noticed Jiang Yuebai’s materialistic look, smirked slightly, and began collecting Dragon Bones too. Her Artifact Refining consumed a lot of materials, and these Dragon Bones could alleviate her embarrassment of lacking Spirit Stones to purchase materials.

"This one seems to be a Black Dragon’s tailbone, Anan quickly gather it, there’s more here!"

Jiang Yuebai tossed a chunk of bone, one person tall and black-jade-like, in front of Lu Nanzhi.

"With so many Dragon Bones, who could this cave belong to, a dragon-slaying madman? Anan, I’m suddenly a bit scared, what should I do?"

Lu Nanzhi stood still, continuously collecting the Dragon Bones Jiang Yuebai threw over, jokingly saying, "I didn’t see fear in you, but I did see your excitement. Stop tossing them, my Storage Bracelet’s space is limited, better put them in yours first."

"That’s fine, let them carry it first, and we’ll look for a way out."

Lu Nanzhi couldn’t help but say, "Ordinary people would just pick the good quality ones and leave, but you, as usual, leave no blade of grass behind."

"Cultivation is expensive in Spirit Stones; how can I not save up plenty?"

The duo swept a path through the Dragon Bones, reaching a point realizing they were indeed in a pit.

Once they got out, they were met by darkness, vaguely seeing several naturally formed Rift Valley paths, wide enough for carts or narrow needing sideways passage.

"There is airflow, indicating they are all passages, but too far for Divine Sense to reach," Lu Nanzhi walked from the narrow path to Jiang Yuebai’s side to say.

Jiang Yuebai pointed to the wide path, "This direction, is it towards the northeast of Black Demon Mountain, towards the already excavated Huntian Demon Head Cave Mansion?"

Lu Nanzhi carefully identified, "Correct."

"Only this path has no wind, meaning no one has explored from there to here."

Jiang Yuebai released Jixiang, leaving the professional mouse-mouse matters to the professional, couldn’t be wrong.

Squeak squeak!

Upon release, Jixiang sprang three feet high, leaping straight into Lu Nanzhi’s arms.

Lu Nanzhi, with quick reflexes, caught the trembling Jixiang, "It’s shaking, seems very scared."

Jiang Yuebai glanced at the adjacent Dragon Bone pit, approaching Jixiang, "Do you think the aura of these Dragons is terrifying, or is returning to feeding the young more terrifying?"

Squeak?

Jixiang’s trembling stopped, lifting its head.

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"Guide us well, and if you do, I’ll let you stay outside and not return to your brood."

Jixiang’s eyes flickered, but in the end, it obediently jumped down from Lu Nanzhi’s arms to explore the various canyon paths.

Squeak, squeak!

Jixiang stood at the entrance of the narrow canyon that required them to squeeze through and squeaked at Jiang Yuebai.

"Jixiang really does save us a lot of time," Lu Nanzhi admired.

"You can choose one from my Pocket Small World next time, cultivated by Yun Shang. Its potential is even higher than Jixiang, though it takes decades of careful nurturing. Only when it breaks through to the Golden Core Stage will it be effective. Jixiang is currently at about the Mid-Stage Golden Core level."

Lu Nanzhi didn’t refuse; these Spiritual Rats can break arrays, find treasure, guide paths, and are very sensitive to danger. Even if it takes a hundred years to nurture, it’s worthwhile.

Back when Jiang Yuebai found Jixiang in the North Sea, it was just at the Early-Stage Golden Core level. After eating so many ores and her Gold Spiritual Energy over the years, it finally advanced to Mid-Stage Golden Core.

Looking ahead, Jiang Yuebai reckoned she might have to find a mountain of minerals for it to consume. She suspected Jixiang lacked the corresponding Cultivation Technique, thus wasting much of the Spiritual Ore’s power. She decided to pay attention to this and help Jixiang find a suitable Cultivation Technique.

While waiting for the Little Demons to collect the Dragon Bones, Jiang Yuebai used Thunder Pearl and Thunder Talisman on her person to set up an array in the canyon path leading to the Huntian Cave Mansion, just in case.

If anyone comes from that direction and triggers the array, the disturbance in breaking it can at least alert them to prepare in advance.

Jiang Yuebai’s caution benefitted Lu Nanzhi greatly, who secretly noted it down, reminding herself to be more mindful in the future to prevent the worst.

More than half an hour later, the Dragon Bones in the pit had been completely collected. The Little Demons were very thorough, and even bones deeply buried in the cracks at the bottom of the pit had been collected by them. They even used their small bodies to dig out a few pieces of red Dragon Bones from beneath the crevice.

Executing Jiang Yuebai’s principle of ’leaving not a single piece of armor’ to perfection.

With so many Dragon Bones, Jiang Yuebai couldn’t spare the time to inspect them. She let the Little Demons throw them all into the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven, then continued to explore deeper with Lu Nanzhi, following Jixiang.

The canyon path was extremely narrow. Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi had to turn sideways to walk, barely passing through. If it were Xie Jingshan, he would probably not fit.

The black mountain rock, whose composition was unknown, couldn’t be scratched even when Jiang Yuebai used her sharpest Dragon Scale Dagger to chisel it.

They kept descending deeper underground and nearly lost their sense of direction and time, only knowing that they were continuously moving downward.

The air became increasingly thin and stifling, carrying a pervasive heat that was oppressive.

Jiang Yuebai roughly estimated they had walked for a whole day, yet had not reached the end.

Jixiang’s pace as a guide slowed considerably, attempting to turn back several times, seemingly sensing something very frightening up ahead.

Holding Jixiang, Jiang Yuebai led the way. Her Divine Soul was weakened, and her Divine Sense couldn’t probe far, leaving Lu Nanzhi to remain vigilant behind her.

After another day’s journey, they finally emerged from the narrow canyon into an expansive underground space.

Ahead lay a darkness Jiang Yuebai’s night vision eyes couldn’t penetrate. She could only discern that the space was vast from the strong echo when speaking to Lu Nanzhi.

Beneath their feet, the black ground seemed crafted with peculiar curves and channels.

"Little Green, go check it out."

Jiang Yuebai released Little Green, whose rising green glow from the phosphorus fire gradually illuminated the outline of their location.

It was a magnificent and enormous black dragon head, with them standing on one of its scales, tiny as ants.

The dragon head seemed like an ancient giant dragon bursting from the mountain, roaring towards the vast abyss. Every flying whisker of the dragon was carved lifelike, so well-carved it seemed supernatural.

As Little Green moved forward, Jiang Yuebai vaguely saw traces of other dragon heads surrounding the abyss, and beside them was a crimson Fire Dragon head, just the same with its body buried within the mountain, with the head roaring.

"It’s so spectacular," Jiang Yuebai exclaimed in awe. "There’s the Black Dragon, Fire Dragon, Qiu Dragon, Azure Dragon, Winged Dragon, Candle Dragon... Here also are the Rain Dragon and Coiled Dragon, nine dragon heads."

Lu Nanzhi was similarly awestruck, "What are these dragons roaring at, what lies beneath the abyss?"

Cautiously, the two moved forward, trying to examine below the abyss when an invisible barrier suddenly appeared, blocking them.

Jiang Yuebai saw the runes on the barrier and said solemnly, "It’s a Dragon Clan restriction."

As she looked around, when the Black Dragon head’s restriction was triggered, runes also glowed on the Qiu Dragon, Winged Dragon, and Candle Dragon heads, but not on the others.

Could it be that the restrictions on the other heads have already been broken?

"Can you break this restriction?" Lu Nanzhi asked.

Jiang Yuebai sent a burst of Spiritual Energy, triggering the restriction barrier again. After checking it carefully, she frowned, "This is a multi-layered restriction, not easy to break, and I suspect all dragon heads’ restrictions need breaking to proceed."

"Then, now..."

The ground suddenly sent weak vibrations that both keenly sensed, exchanging glances.

"Could it be your array is..." Lu Nanzhi dared not complete her sentence.

Jiang Yuebai scratched her head, "It’s too far away; I can’t confirm. Let’s hurry and explore the surroundings. With such a large setup here, I fear something terrifying lurks below."