Yellow Court Daoist-Chapter 476 - 452 Changqing Demon!!!

Sitting cross-legged in a deserted hollow within Qing Wood Valley, the Five Ghosts quietly infiltrated Treasure Peak. Within the belly of the mountain, indeed, there lay another world, constructed layer upon layer akin to a pagoda. Each layer was protected by a sequence of Arrays, and without the command token of Qing Wood Valley, even a single step forward would result in being struck to dust by countless thunders.

Kuang Tianqi presided over the topmost layer, the array gathering spiritual energy from all directions as he sat cross-legged in cultivation.

The Five Ghosts were not afraid.

They appeared directly on the bottom layer.

Kuang Tianqi, who controlled the Great Array and presided over the treasure vault, was completely unaware.

"Whoa!"

Lu Qingfeng didn’t bother with Kuang Tianqi for the time being, and as soon as he commanded the Five Ghosts to enter, the scene before him deeply shook him.

On the bottom layer, spanning about thirty miles in radius, thirty plots of Spirit Stones were placed neatly, each enveloped by an Array that prohibited random entry and egress while also preventing the leakage of spiritual energy.

Each plot of Spirit Stones, at a cursory glance, contained at least a million pieces.

"Thirty plots."

"Thirty million stones!"

Lu Qingfeng couldn’t help but laugh.

Qing Wood Valley, founded on Alchemy, had numerous Primordial Spirits within its gates, accumulated over generations; this was their foundation.

He didn’t dawdle.

The Five Ghosts immediately began to transfer them.

For each plot of Spirit Stones, the Five Ghosts only needed to transfer them once. Within the hollow, Lu Qingfeng’s Mustard Space was too small and unstable, so he took out the Upper Origin Eight Sceneries Tower.

After thirty trips.

Thirty million Spirit Stones were all collected into the Eight Sceneries Tower, placed within the Third Level’s Four Seas Realm. Above the Four Seas, Qingfeng formed a Great Array to arrange the thirty million stones according to the layout in the Green Wood treasure vault, also into thirty plots.

Bright and resplendent.

"Continue!"

With thirty million Spirit Stones removed, the Five Ghosts carried on relentlessly.

Then to the Second Layer.

The Second Layer housed Spiritual Pearls. Situated in the Earth Realm of Nine Waters and Seven Gorges, Qing Wood Valley commanded countless Shell Fields, producing even more Spiritual Pearls annually than Spirit Stones.

"Fifty million Spiritual Pearls!"

Lu Qingfeng, unceremoniously, welcomed them all with open arms.

Green Wood Treasure Vault’s Third Layer.

Here, too, laid piles of Spirit Stones. However, unlike the first layer, these stones each had properties—either Fire or Water Spirit Stones.

Arranged according to the Five Elements.

Elemental Spirit Stones are far more valuable than ordinary ones, more suitable for cultivators practicing corresponding attributes. Correspondingly, however, their numbers were much less.

Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—Five Elements Spirit Stones, the Third Layer contained a total of only two million blocks.

In terms of value, they could be exchanged for about twenty million ordinary Spirit Stones.

"Move!"

The Five Ghosts transported and directly collected them.

A smile couldn’t help but appear on Lu Qingfeng’s face.

The ’Five Ghosts Transfer Skill’ indeed was the prime choice for amassing wealth.

Compared with Alchemy and Artifact Refining, this was more than a notch better.

Lu Qingfeng smiled and proceeded upward—

The First Layer’s Spirit Stones.

The Second Layer’s Spiritual Pearls.

The Third Layer’s Elemental Spirit Stones.

The Fourth Layer’s Elemental Spiritual Pearls.

The Fifth Layer’s various types of Spiritual Medicine.

The Sixth Layer’s various kinds of ores.

The Seventh Layer’s Magic Artifacts.

The Eighth Layer’s Spirit Pills.

The Ninth Layer’s ancient texts. novelbuddy-cσ๓

The Tenth Layer’s rare Spiritual Medicines.

The Eleventh Layer’s rare ores.

The Twelfth Layer’s Seventh-Order Magical Artifacts.

The Thirteenth Layer’s Seventh-Order Spirit Pills.

The Fourteenth Floor’s Top Techniques.

The Fifteenth Layer...

The Sixteenth Layer...

The Seventeenth Layer...

...

In total, Twenty-Eight Layers.

It took the five small ghosts three full days to transfer everything from the twenty-eight layers of the treasure vault.

The Twenty-Eighth Layer was where Kuang Tianqi cultivated, built according to a top-level Cultivation Quiet Room; inside, there were no treasures. The Five Ghosts went in, took a look at the cultivating Kuang Tianqi, feeling it rude to disturb, and thus directly left.

Thus.

The foundation that Qing Wood Valley had accumulated over unknown years since its founding, completely fell into Lu Qingfeng’s pocket.

"There are also the Primordial Spirit Cave Mansions!"

Lu Qingfeng’s heart swelled with joy, yet he still wasn’t satisfied. The Five Ghosts moved again, infiltrating the Primordial Spirit Cave Mansions, plundering the seven absent Primordial Spirits’ mansions like Xun Tiange and Yue Zhong empty.

Although the gain was not as substantial as the Green Wood Treasure Vault, after all, it was the Primordial Spirit Cave Mansion, and not insignificant.

Lu Qingfeng couldn’t care less to examine his haul in detail and could not be bothered with the possessions of other Qing Wood Valley cultivators beneath the Primordial Spirit.

With a thought.

"Out!"

The two Demon Gods, Ju Mang and Houtu, appeared without a sound on the outside.

Upon appearing.

The Houtu Demon God tunneled into the earth, the Ju Mang Demon God merged with the forest, the Five Ghosts turned to smoke and followed closely behind. Crossing mountains and rivers, they arrived at a secluded spot in Qing Wood Valley.

Here, the array construction on all sides was far superior to anywhere else in Yellow Maple Gorge; even the array inside and outside the Primordial Spirit Cave Mansion could hardly compare, only the array outside the Green Wood treasure vault could match it.

It was none other than the other main Array hub of Qing Wood Valley’s mountain gate, aside from Green Wood Treasure Vault!

In a flash!

The two great Demon Gods, one merged with the earth, the other turned into plant essence qi, bypassing the arrays, and entering inside.

In the secluded valley.

It seemed no different from an ordinary valley, flourishing with plants and trees. In the sunlit part of the valley, a verdant willow had grown tall.

With thousands of tendrils, the leaves glowed green.

On closer inspection, on a north-facing branch of the verdant willow, two lotus-like buds swayed in the wind, ready to bloom.

Under the tree.

A person donned in white robes sat cross-legged, with a Pill Furnace floating on the void before him, the Dan Fire gently flickering. From within the Pill Furnace, wafts of fragrance indicated that pills were being refined.

"Xun Bai."

Lu Qingfeng recognized the person; it was the newly advanced Primordial Spirit Practitioner Xun Bai of Qing Wood Valley. In the past battle at Yuu Mountain Immortal Mansion, Lu Qingfeng once met this person under the guise of the ’Yellow Robed Old Monster.’

Times had changed.

Back then, Lu Qingfeng was only in the Spirit Void Realm, Xun Bai just in the Golden Core Realm.

Now, Lu Qingfeng was on the brink of the Solid Pill Peak, and Xun Bai had achieved the Primordial Spirit Realm.

However, in terms of actual strength.

The gap between Xun Bai and Lu Qingfeng had grown even wider.

"Guarding Qingmu Valley are two Primordial Spirits, with Kuang Tianqi stationed at the Green Wood Treasure Vault, while Xun Bai resides in the valley, protecting the ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’ within."

Lu Qingfeng looked towards the willow tree—

[Spirit Plant: Empty Heart Divine Willow]

[Grade: Eighth Rank]

[Description: The Empty Heart Divine Willow blossoms every five hundred years, bears fruit every five hundred years, and the fruits ripen after another five hundred years— a cycle of a total of fifteen hundred years. It yields two ’Empty Core Divine Fruits’, one Yin and one Yang; male cultivators consume the ’Yin Fruit’, and female cultivators, the ’Yang Fruit’, to nurture the Divine Soul, greatly enhancing the chances of ascending to the Primordial Spirit Realm.]

"What an excellent ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’."

"The Yin Yang Fruits are said to greatly increase the chances, but in reality, as long as the foundation is solid, and it’s consumed at the Golden Core Peak, there is a seventy to eighty percent chance of advancing to the Primordial Spirit, making it a near-certain success."

"For countless years, the uninterrupted succession of Primordial Spirits in Qingmu Valley relied on this ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’. In terms of value, it is even above the Green Wood Treasure Vault."

What’s accumulated in the Green Wood Treasure Vault is, after all, just a collection.

The Empty Heart Divine Willow, however, is something rare and not easily found; should any mishap occur to it, the very foundation of Qingmu Valley would be shaken. An inadvertent mistake in the future could lead to its decline.

"With this tree here,"

"Every fifteen hundred years, Qingmu Valley can at least guarantee two more Primordial Spirits."

No wonder it has never waned.

However.

"This is where it ends."

Lu Qingfeng looked at the ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’, feeling a trace of reluctance in his heart, which he quickly dismissed, "There are a few ’Empty Core Divine Fruits’ left in the Green Wood Treasure Vault, both Yin and Yang, which are enough for me, Qingshan, and Qingyu to use."

As for this ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’—

"It’s perfect for Red Dust Foundation Establishment!"

In reality, the ’Red Dust Longevity Technique’ has not yet been cultivated; Lu Qingfeng had been planning to ascend to the Gathering Law Realm first, then go out to search for the Earth Evil Yin Vein and the Heavenly Gang Qi to Condense Evil and Refine Gang, and while at it, look for additional components.

Encountering the ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’ today saves him from future trouble.

Although it might seem wasteful, but when it concerns his own future, Lu Qingfeng does not care for much else.

...

The Houtu Demon God tunneled underground and arrived beneath the ’Empty Heart Divine Willow’.

The root system of the Empty Heart Divine Willow was exceptionally developed, some growing in all directions, others delving deep into the earth. Where the roots were, there were countless restrictions and arrays enveloping them, partly for nurturing, gathering Spiritual Energy to produce Spirit Water, but mostly for protection, against snakes, insects, rats, ants underground, and against threats from within and without.

In such a situation, extracting the Empty Heart Divine Willow along with its roots proved to be no easy feat.

The Ju Mang Demon God transformed into the essence of plants and trees, swirling with the wind and landed on the leaves of the Empty Heart Divine Willow, silently merging into it. Through the Ju Mang Demon God, Lu Qingfeng could see that the area above the ground where the Empty Heart Divine Willow stood was also covered by innumerable restrictions and arrays.

"It’s only right for the root of Qingmu Valley to be protected by such elaborate defensive patterns."

Lu Qingfeng’s eyes shimmered, illuminating the inner and outer restrictions and arrays of the Empty Heart Divine Willow. He calculated with his hands, continuously deriving the solutions.

Suddenly.

A smile appeared on Lu Qingfeng’s face, and he uttered softly—

"Rise!"

At once, the Empty Heart Divine Willow seemed to become sentient, its branches and roots quivering chaotically as if in a frenzy. Though appearing disordered, each tremor followed the gaps in the array formation restrictions.

Houtu controls the earth.

Ju Mang controls vegetation.

In just a moment.

The Empty Heart Divine Willow, like a leek plucked from dry land, suddenly leapt from the earth.

"This—"

Xun Bai was dumbfounded, his eyes wide with shock.

Even as a Primordial Spirit, he could never have imagined the Empty Heart Divine Willow would simply spring up out of nowhere.

"Could it be that it has gained sentience?"

Xun Bai murmured, momentarily dazed.

And the next moment.

Such a commotion finally triggered the array.

Boom!

Once triggered, it immediately erupted. An immense force pressed down, the heavy array formation restrictions making it hard for a person to even breathe.

Boom!

Boom!

Neither the Houtu Demon God nor the Ju Mang Demon God could escape. One emerged from the earth, crushed on the spot, while the other fell from the suspended Empty Heart Divine Willow.

Whoosh!

Five streams of black smoke transformed into the Five Ghosts and suddenly appeared, unaffected by the suppression. The Five Ghosts were spread in five directions, encircling the Empty Heart Divine Willow that had just leaped into midair, engulfed in black smoke.

The next instant, the Empty Heart Divine Willow disappeared without a trace.

Everything happened too quickly.

In the blink of an eye, Xun Bai, who was below the tree, was jolted awake from alchemy. The pill furnace exploded violently, and the surging wave of energy and the sky-high fire had yet to dissipate when he saw the Empty Heart Divine Willow leap into the void, followed by the appearance of two bizarrely shaped demons with towering demon flames.

"Demon Gods!"

"The Changqing Demon?!"

Houtu and Ju Mang had both revealed themselves in East Sea Jin Mountain; Xun Bai recognized them instantly, and his heart twitched. Panicked, he exclaimed loudly.

Before his voice faded.

Five Ghosts appeared again, and with another blink, the Empty Heart Divine Willow was already gone.

"Empty Heart Divine Willow!"

"Changqing Demon!"

At this shock, Xun Bai’s mind was blown, his soul tried to leave his body, and his face turned deathly pale. As he looked up to the sky, a broken and sharp voice came out from Xun Bai’s throat—

"Martial law!"

"The entire valley is under martial law; no one is to move around without authorization!"

"Violators will be killed without mercy!"

The voice was piercing, shattering to the nine heavens, full of murderous intent. Xun Bai was panicked and angry, a sweep of his sleeve setting off the mountain gate array in a roar; wind, fire, and thunder surged forth, sweeping over Yellow Maple Gorge.

"How dare they?"

"How dare they?!"

"How dare they!!!"

Xun Bai’s voice echoed throughout Green Wood Valley, and before it ceased, from the Green Wood Treasure Vault’s direction, a voice burning with rage thundered through the sky, the powerful presence sweeping across, unmistakably belonging to Kuang Tianqi, who was stationed there.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Above Yellow Maple Gorge, two tunneling lights suddenly rose and then descended, revealing Xun Bai and Kuang Tianqi themselves.

"The Empty Heart Divine Willow has been stolen by the Changqing Demon!"

"The treasure vault has been emptied!"

The two met face to face, almost simultaneously speaking out.

Both pairs of eyes locked on each other.

Crackle!

Lightning crackled from the void, their eyes filled with shock and anger—

"The Changqing Demon!"

Boom!

The roar shook heaven and earth, the array of Green Wood Valley thundered louder still, covering every mountain and river of Yellow Maple Gorge, sealing off all entry.

However.

In a mountain hollow, a figure stood up, shaking and swaying before vanishing into thin air. The next moment, wind, fire, and thunder swept across the hollow; the grass and trees were untouched and no abnormalities were found.

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