Several days later, a piece of news spread among the various powers and itinerant cultivators in the Ying Shan mountain range. After Long River Laozu joined the Gu Clan and led the Gu Clan's forces back to the Ying Shan mountain range, the newly risen Ying Shan Immortal Academy and the Mountain Universe Sect, which was formed by the remnants of the Dao Universe Sect and Ying Shan Sect, had no choice but to join forces to resist the Gu Clan.
There was a huge battle outside the Ying Shan Immortal Academy. Two late stage Core Forging elders, Adept Xuantian and Adept Xuanping, had joined forces to defeat Adept Jian Ming, Wang Jianzhi, and the Three Heroes of the Gu Clan.
The Three Heroes of the Gu Clan's combined attack was famous among the late stage Core Forging cultivators in the cultivation world north of the Flowing Flower River. Even though they were only at the eighth level of the Core Forging realm, the three of them had once fought and won against three ninth level Core Forging cultivators.
However, this time, they were defeated by an elder of the Ying Shan Immortal Academy, Adept Xuanping, who was also at the eighth level of the Core Forging realm, with a pair of flying swords. The three of them were heavily injured, and in the end, Long River Laozu and Gu Hao, the two Transcendence cultivators, had to appear. Only then did Adept Xuanping retreat.
This battle made the various powers in the Ying Shan mountain range realize that the rise of the Ying Shan Immortal Academy was not due to Guo Tianshan Laozu's power alone. Ying Shan Immortal Academy had also obtained the recognition of the cultivation world of Hebei through this battle. Adept Xuanping had also begun to enter the eyes of the various powers in Hebei.
Lu Ping followed the Ying River and traveled hundreds of kilometers downstream. The Ying River twisted and turned in the Ying Shan mountain range. After countless twists and turns, it finally broke through the encirclement of the Ying Shan mountain range and entered the flat lands of Hebei, the second largest river in the Middle Lands, the Yulan River.
As a result, Lu Ping followed the Ying River downstream for close to a thousand kilometers. Not only did he not leave Ying Shan Mountain Range, he even reached the central, southern region of Ying Shan Mountain Range. This was also the place where Guo Tianshan, Yu Shang, Chang He, and Gu Hao, the four Laozu families had discussed after the previous battle.
The terrain here was low and flat. From afar, it looked like a huge fist had smashed into the Yingshan Mountain Range, causing the ground to cave in. One could even see the cracks in the ground that formed gullies. Therefore, this place was also called "Godly Fist Basin".
After entering the basin, the originally turbulent Abundant River immediately calmed down. The surface of the water surged, and a huge black tortoise carrying a young cultivator who appeared to be in his twenties floated on the surface of the water, swimming down the river.
When Lu Ping received the decree from Guo Tianshan Laozu, he was rather surprised. He had inherited the pure Yang soul of the Ying Tian Sect's peak Dharma adept, Fei Tian Laozu. He knew the secret places that the Ying Tian Sect had opened up in the Ying Shan mountain range like the back of his hand. However, he also knew that these secret places had probably been passed down for a long time.
Originally, Lu Ping had planned to search for these secret places according to Fei Tian Laozu's memories after he came out of seclusion. Even though the chances were slim, if he could find one, it would undoubtedly be a great boost to the development of the Ying Shan Immortal Academy.
However, he did not expect that one of the large secret places of inheritance of the Ying Tian Sect would still be preserved.
These so-called secret places of the Ying Tian Sect could actually be divided into three levels: the spirit gathering secret place, the spirit vein secret place, and the inheritance secret place. The spirit gathering secret place was actually a spirit gathering place that was rich in spirit energy and opened up into a spirit herb garden or a spirit plant garden. The scale was not large, and only a few simple formations were used to conceal it to prevent wild beasts from destroying the things inside.
These so-called secret places were the most numerous. Lu Ping did not expect these so-called secret places, which could be discovered by a Core Forging cultivator's Divine Will, to be passed down.
The spirit vein was a secret place that the Ying Tian Sect had opened up using some of the scattered spirit veins in the Ying Shan mountain range. This place was usually protected by a more complete formation, and there were disciples of the Ying Tian Sect stationed in the secret place, specializing in protection and cultivation.
Although these secret places were more secretive, after the destruction of the Ying Tian Sect, these secret places were continuously found by cultivators in the Ying Shan mountain range. Now, even Lu Ping was not confident that one or two of these secret places would still exist.
The most secretive places were the inheritance secret places. These secret places were generally divided into two types. One was the inheritance place that the Ying Tian Sect had opened up using a heavenly grotto-heaven magic treasure, like the Ying Xu Treasured Mirror that Lu Ping had discovered and taken away by Jiang Tianlin Laozu. The other type was the grotto-heaven space that the powerful cultivators of the Ying Tian Sect had opened up in the Ying Shan mountain range using some spatial cracks.
These two types of secret places were the essence of the Ying Tian Sect's inheritance. They were also the true goal of the people behind the destruction of the Ying Tian Sect.
However, other than cultivators like Fei Tian Laozu in the Ying Tian Sect, no one knew how many of these secret places the Ying Tian Sect had opened up. Even a cunning rabbit had three burrows, let alone a large sect that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years!
For thousands of years, what truly attracted the cultivators of the various sects to come to the Ying Shan Mountain Range were these large secret inheritances that had yet to be discovered. Once found, it would be a lifetime of wealth for any cultivator.
The secret place that Lu Ping was looking for in the Divine Fist Basin was an inheritance secret place that was opened up in a spatial crack that was passed down by the Ying Tian Sect.
This secret place was called the "Broken Bone Grotto-Heaven" by the Ying Tian Sect, but it was now called the "Fist Valley Grotto-Heaven". During the battle that destroyed the Ying Tian Sect, Fei Tian Laozu originally wanted to transfer the treasures in this grotto-heaven to the dojo, but unexpectedly, he was stopped by a cultivator of the same realm.
This cultivator did not know Fei Tian Laozu's intentions. When a Fei Tian Laozu wanted to escape, he simply punched down and wanted to stop him from escaping. However, he did not expect that the grotto-heaven that was opened up in the spatial crack would collapse.
Fei Tian Laozu originally thought that this space would definitely no longer exist, but he did not expect that it would be preserved in the end. Moreover, because the depths of the spatial crack were extremely unstable, after suffering an attack from a powerful cultivator, some unknown changes occurred. As a result, although this space was preserved, there were many restrictions that prevented cultivators from entering and leaving as they pleased.
This space was originally a secret shared by the Ying He, Ying Shan, and Dao Space Sects. The space would open once every three hundred years, and every time it opened, the large amounts of five-hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old spiritual herbs produced in the space would be an important source of medicinal pills for the cultivators of the three sects.
The Ying Shan Immortal Academy naturally did not know about this space, but when the Immortal Academy first expanded its forces, it had unintentionally marked this space as the edge of its territory. As a result, the other two sects were slightly unwilling.
These two sects naturally did not want the Immortal Academy to know about the location of this space. As the space that opened once every three hundred years approached, this was also one of the reasons why the Mountain Universe Sect and the current Gu Family had fought against the Ying Shan Immortal Academy. They hoped to chase the Immortal Academy out of this region and protect the secret here.
However, no matter what, the Ying Shan Immortal Academy still withstood the pressure in the end. Yu Shang Laozu clearly knew that her Mountain Universe Sect alone could not maintain a balance with the Gu Family in the Ying Shan Mountain Range. This secret was ultimately revealed to Guo Tianshan Laozu when the four Laozu discussed it.
The talisman that Guo Tianshan Laozu gave to Lu Ping was naturally in the hope that he could lead the disciples of the Immortal Academy to the secret space. In the past, the three sects had obtained close to fifty thousand stalks of five-hundred-year-old spirit herbs and five thousand stalks of thousand-year-old spirit herbs. This was an enormous wealth that could not be ignored.
Lu Ping thought back to when he first entered Fei Ling Island. Back then, the total amount of 500-year spirit herbs collected by the various sects was only equal to the amount produced in this space. As for the 1,000-year spirit herbs, the difference was too great, only one-tenth of the amount produced in this space.
It had to be known that Fei Ling Island was where Fei Ling Sect's dao rite was located. Even though this dao rite had already been plundered, it was still nourished by a large spirit vein. Moreover, it would only appear once every five hundred years. This space was merely one of the secret areas opened by the Ying Tian Sect, and it would open once every three hundred years. This could not be said to be small.
Could there really be such a huge difference between the North Sea and the Central Plains?
Lu Ping knew that there were naturally many other factors that could not be generalized. However, there was no doubt that the Central Plains was far more fertile than the North Sea's cultivation world.
Lu Ping weighed the pros and cons and finally decided to go to this partially collapsed secret space to investigate first. Even though he knew that Guo Tianshan Laozu must have already investigated this place beforehand, Lu Ping still trusted his own eyes and senses more.
His Divine Will, which was not inferior to that of an early Dharma adept, constantly lingered around a cliff in this basin. Lu Ping's brows furrowed slightly. Clearly, when the opponent who was on par with Fei Tian Laozu smashed down with his fist, the secret space's entrance had been smashed into pieces. Although this secret space was fortunately preserved, the entrance to the secret space had already collapsed.
Every three hundred years, the collapsed space would recover for a short period of time. However, it was extremely fragile. Once a Mid Blood Condensation Realm cultivator or above entered, the recovered space would collapse again, and the cultivator would die.
After several lessons, the three sects came to the conclusion that only adepts who were below the early Blood Condensation could enter.
Naturally, Lu Ping did not come here to verify the lessons he had learned from the three sects' bloody lessons. Instead, he came here because of the records he had obtained from Fei Tian Laozu's pure Yang soul. The Broken Bone Cave Heaven, which was now known as the Fist Valley Cave Heaven, was not only a space that produced 500-year-old spirit herbs and 1,000-year-old spirit herbs, but the number of 3,000-year-old spirit herbs in this cave was also quite considerable.
More importantly, this grotto-heaven was filled with 3,000-year-old spirit herbs that were extremely rare in the cultivation world. They were essential for refining the Spirit Forging Pill.
However, in the past 4,000 years, the three sects' cultivators had not obtained even a single 3,000-year-old spirit herb from the Fist Valley Cave Heaven. Why was that?
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