Looking at the empty hall in the middle of the mountain, it was obvious that the things here had been looted by Ceng Wu and his companions. Finally, the important things had been seized from them by Lu Ping and the others.
Ceng Wu looked around the empty hall. He tried his best to calm down. Moreover, he could tell from the conversation of the few Spiritual Masters that there must be some secret in this cave mansion that Ceng Wu and his companions had yet to discover. However, his eyes were still filled with curiosity. How could these Spiritual Masters discover something in this empty hall that they hadn't discovered?
However, before Ceng Wu's wish could be fulfilled, Qiao Weijie looked at Lu Ping. Ceng Wu's mind seemed to have received a heavy blow, and his consciousness suddenly became fuzzy.
Lu Ping said lightly, "He won't wake up for five days."
Qiao Weijie sneered, but didn't say anything. Spiritual Master Shui Xiu said with a smile, "Senior Brother Lu's divine sense cultivation is amazing. Since it's five days, it shouldn't be wrong."
Seeing that Ceng Wu had fainted on the ground, Daoist Han Fei's footsteps paused, and the entire mountainside shook with a rumbling sound, as if an earthquake was going to happen. The ground a few feet in front of everyone suddenly collapsed, and a pitch-black hole appeared in front of everyone. At the same time, a dense spiritual energy gushed out from the hole.
Everyone's face lit up with joy. They walked towards the hole. Lu Ping didn't follow everyone in. Instead, he made a few hand signs. A blue halo overflowed from Lu Ping's palm, and wrapped around Ceng Wu who had fainted on the ground. Then, the blue halo gradually faded until it disappeared. Ceng Wu also disappeared from the ground.
Lu Ping used his divine sense to explore the ground under his feet. Then, he walked towards the hole in the ground with satisfaction.
The hole in the ground was a flight of stairs that extended diagonally downward. The walls on both sides of the stairs were inlaid with starlight stones. Although they were dim, they could still illuminate the passageway.
When Lu Ping walked down the stairs, what appeared in front of him was an underground building complex that was formed by several palaces. This was the real core of this underground cave mansion. Lu Ping and the others found some of the more complicated remnants of restrictions among some of the miscellaneous items that Ceng Wu's companions had taken away. From this, they could infer that there must be another world in this cave mansion. The entire building complex was covered by an array. Moreover, within the array, the buildings, passageways, and gardens were protected by layers of colorful restrictions. Obviously, in order to obtain benefits from this small building complex, Lu Ping and the others not only had to break through the protective array, but they also had to break through various restrictions. However, restrictions were different from array formations. An array formation was like a wall used to protect the cave mansion, while restrictions were like the various traps set up in the buildings and passageways of the cave mansion.
When a cave mansion's protective array was broken through, it was just like when a city's city wall was broken through. However, just like the invaders who broke through the city wall would have to face more severe street battles, the foreign cultivators who broke through the protective array would also have to face these complicated and intertwined restrictions.
When Lu Ping walked to the front of the protective array, he found that there were already three broken holes on the top of the array. At this time, the holes were slowly closing under the operation of the array. Obviously, it was the masterpiece of Qiao Weijie and the others who had arrived here first.
After pondering for a moment, Lu Ping understood that these three holes should have been opened by Qiao Weijie and Han Fei, Qian Shu and Yang Sanyang, and Reverend Shui Xiu.
Lu Ping naturally wouldn't enter through these three holes. Needless to say, Lu Ping knew that after these three holes were opened, they would be followed by many restrictive spells and traps to prevent the later cultivators from taking the path of retreat of those who entered first. Once Lu Ping entered, he would immediately be discovered by the cultivators who opened the path before him, and would regard Lu Ping as an enemy. Moreover, he would also have to face the restrictive spells and traps and ambushes set up by those cultivators who entered first. In this way, it would instead delay Lu Ping's exploration of this cave mansion.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Ping first pulled Dabao out from the Golden House that he was carrying on his chest. Then, Dabao's sharp beak and several long whiskers arched against the ground twice. His two front paws that were buried under his fat body barely scratched the ground twice. Then, he turned his head and gave two squeaks towards Lu Ping.
As expected, Lu Ping nodded his head. The ground here had already been sealed by the array. Obviously, it was impossible for Dabao to enter the array by burrowing through the ground.
Lu Ping pointed at a spot in the array and a white bolt of lightning descended. The area that was struck by the lightning suddenly froze and gradually cracked. Then, Lu Ping sent out two more bolts of lightning in succession and the cracked barrier suddenly shattered. Then, Lu Ping walked into the array with a fat mouse following behind him.
After Lu Ping and Dabao entered the array, the cracks in the array that were covered in frost began to glow again. The frost gradually melted and the broken barrier began to slowly recover like the three holes from before.
After entering the array, the density of the spirit force became even denser. The size of this underground palace wasn't too large and couldn't be compared to the Heavy Profound Cave Mansion. However, from the "squeaks" that came from Dabao, the density of the spirit force here was about the size of five or six small spirit veins.
Dabao scratched the ground a few more times and could only helplessly follow behind Lu Ping. It was clear that even the ground in the array had been sealed. This made Dabao, who had always played the role of the vanguard in Lu Ping's exploration, at a loss what to do.
Even though Lu Ping entered the array, there were restrictions everywhere that blocked Lu Ping's Divine Sense. However, from the roars coming from all directions, it could be seen that the others were already impatiently breaking the array.
Just as Lu Ping was about to walk forward, Dabao bit his pants. Lu Ping turned around and followed Dabao two steps to the side. A few grey halos formed a spider web-like restriction, blocking Lu Ping's vision.
Lu Ping carefully examined the restriction in front of him with his Divine Sense. At the same time, a blue light flashed in his eyes. A moment later, Lu Ping made a few hand seals and a layer of light suddenly disappeared in front of Lu Ping. However, the other two layers were still flashing.
Lu Ping thought about it carefully and made a few more hand seals. The second light barrier gradually faded away. Then, Lu Ping made another hand seal that was shrouded in a blue light barrier. Only then did the second light barrier break.
However, when it came to the third light curtain, Lu Ping continuously changed several different hand seals, but he could no longer break it. Lu Ping's hand seals were partly guided by Liang Xuanfeng, but most of them were figured out by Lu Ping from the mysterious purple jade slip he obtained from Fei Ling Island.
Lu Ping had gained a lot from the mysterious restriction techniques he learned in Zhong Xuan's Cave-Dwelling. Although they were still useful in this cave-dwelling, they weren't as handy as they were in Zhong Xuan's Cave-Dwelling.
In desperation, Lu Ping opened his palm and five sharp Sword Qi shot out from his fingers. They circled in the air and stirred towards the third light curtain. Suddenly, the light curtain was shredded into pieces.
Lu Ping looked at the things behind the light curtain and felt a little strange. There were a total of 24 pots of different shapes and colors of seven feet tall coral placed on the ground.
Most of these corals were treasures that had been bred in the sea for at least thousands of years. They were condensed from the essence of a variety of spiritual materials. Therefore, they could not be directly used to refine a variety of magic tools. However, in the hands of a tool refiner, a large number of rare spiritual materials could be separated from them and then used to refine magic tools.
Moreover, because these corals were old and mature, most of the spiritual materials contained within them had reached the level of top tier spiritual materials. After being separated, they could be used to refine other top tier magic tools.
After Lu Ping put 22 of these corals into his storage ring, the last two corals made Lu Ping happy again. These two corals were slightly shorter than the other 22 corals, but the spirit halos contained within them were much denser than the other corals.
Lu Ping's eyes shone with green light. After a long time, he happily put these two corals into the Golden House. The spiritual materials contained within these two corals had obviously been affected by the Spirit Object of the Heaven and Earth. They had mutated into second tier top tier spiritual materials. However, Lu Ping could not find any trace of the Spirit Object of the Heaven and Earth in the corals even after using the True Pupils of Three Pure Ones. After a while, he realized that these corals were obviously found by the owner of the cave. If there was a Spirit Object of the Heaven and Earth in these corals, it would have been taken away by the owner of the cave long ago.
Lu Ping turned around and continued to walk towards the inner part of the cave. At this time, the rumbling sounds of magic arts resounded in succession from other directions. Judging from the direction of the sound and the hole that was opened outside the magic array, Lu Ping deduced that the most intense rumbling sounds were coming from Qiao Weijie and Han Fei. Judging from the current situation, these two were obviously the fastest in their progress. Following closely behind them was Daoist Shui Xiu, not Qian Shu and Yang Sanyang. However, there were very few rumbling sounds coming from Daoist Shui Xiu's direction. Usually, there would only be a few explosive sounds after a period of time. Moreover, compared to the direction where the previous rumbling sounds came from, Daoist Shui Xiu had undoubtedly advanced towards the innermost layer of the cave.
It seemed that this Daoist Shui Xiu should be a cultivator proficient in the Art of Breaking Restrictions. Previously, he had been using the Art of Breaking Restrictions to advance. Only when he encountered a restriction that he could not break would he have no choice but to use magic arts to forcibly break it. This was the reason why the interval between the rumbling sounds coming from Daoist Shui Xiu's direction was so long.
The slowest ones were Qian Shu and Yang Sanyang from Sea Yu Sect. Although their progress was slow, they were very rhythmic in breaking the restrictions. They weren't like Qiao Weijie and Han Fei, who didn't hesitate to use their true essence to bombard the restrictions indiscriminately. Clearly, these two brothers had a tacit understanding with each other.
Lu Ping was secretly vigilant. At the same time, he unconsciously sped up the speed of breaking the restrictions. He chased after the others. At the same time, the House of Gold on his chest radiated with golden light. Then, three eight or nine year old boys and a twelve or thirteen year old girl appeared behind Lu Ping.
"Lu Bi, Lu Hai, and Lu Ling will follow Father to break the restrictions. Qin 'er will be responsible for defending against all kinds of traps and attacks when the restrictions are forcibly broken."
As a matter of fact, the Blue Phoenix's explosive attacks were the fastest way to break the restrictions. However, the counterattacks of the restrictions would be more powerful and endless. Therefore, Lu Ping would be tired of dealing with them. Therefore, Lu Ping simply let Samling assist him in breaking the restrictions. Samling's combined strength was above that of the Blue Phoenix, which had already advanced to the second layer of Core Forging Realm. Moreover, although Samling's attacks weren't as violent and grand as the Blue Phoenix's, their might wasn't the slightest bit weaker.
Lu Ping could directly break some restrictions by using the Restriction Breaking Technique. If he couldn't, Samling would immediately join forces to assist Lu Ping in breaking the restrictions by force. The counterattacks of the restrictions would be blocked by Lu Qin-er. Dabao would also raise one or two earth walls from the ground from time to time. However, most of them would be crushed as easily as breaking dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.
One man and four demons advanced together. In a short while, their progress had surpassed Qian Shu and Yang Sanyang of the Yu Sea Sect. They were approaching Daoist Shui Xiu's progress. Moreover, they were hindered by Dabao from time to time. Under Dabao's strong request, they broke the restrictions on both sides. This had affected Lu Ping's progress.
However, Dabao had discovered a few withered spiritual herb gardens among these broken restrictions. He had harvested a lot of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs from them. There were also a dozen three-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs that had survived by luck. And, Lu Ping had personally plucked them.
The layout of this underground cave mansion was extremely compact. There were four lofts distributed around the central palace. Lu Ping was approaching one of them. He was sitting in the direction of the other loft. Qiao Weijie and Han Fei had already broken the restrictions of the loft. The booming sound of magic spells was getting more and more intense. It seemed as if the loft would also collapse under the bombardment.
Lu Ping's progress had already caught up with Daoist Shui Xiu. Lu Ping was delighted when he saw the restriction in front of the loft. His hands were like butterflies flying through flowers. He made forty-two hand gestures in succession. A loud rumbling sound was heard. The light curtain of the restriction in front of Lu Ping suddenly collapsed backward. Then, a five-colored door appeared in front of Lu Ping.
Dabao didn't wait for Lu Ping to call out to him. He had already rushed into the loft.
Lu Ping instructed Samling to guard the door. Then, he and Lu Qin-er followed Dabao into the loft.
There were many bookshelves placed against the walls of the loft. Not only were there many paper books, but there were also piles of wooden slips. There were also some jade slips placed on top of them. An ordinary wooden table was placed in the middle of the loft. A teapot and four teacups were placed on top of it. One of the teacups was not inverted on the table like the other three teacups. Instead, it was placed on the edge of the wooden table where the reclining chair was placed. The tea in the teacup had already dried up. There were only faint tea stains and dust that were about to cover the tea stains. There was an open paper book on the edge of the teacup. It was also covered with dust. It seemed as if the owner of the cave mansion was enjoying tea and reading in this loft at a specific time.
Lu Ping saw a thin bulge on the dusty book. His heart stirred. He waved his hand to brush off the dust on the book. A thin jade slip was revealed. Lu Ping was delighted. He hastily used his divine sense to explore the contents of the jade slip.
Lu Ping slowly put down the jade slip after some time. Then, he carefully placed it in his storage ring. After that, he started to walk back and forth among the bookshelves in the loft.
Dabao dragged a clay pot out of nowhere, and ran towards Lu Ping.
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