The Underground Seal and the Rotting Corpse
[As a wealthy tycoon, the host attracts countless treasures from beautiful women, displaying unparalleled charm. Rewards: 1 Advanced Rebate Card, 100 catties of Low-Grade Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves, and 10 Low-Level Longevity-Enhancing Pills.]
Lu Yang stared at the rewards on the panel, stunned for a moment, a strange feeling rising in his heart.
After receiving Nanyue's Law Treasure, I actually received a reward?
Good heavens... this guy's taking food and money at the same time!
That's typical of the system.
The rewards are quite good; the Advanced Rebate Card goes without saying.
There's never too much Dao Comprehension Tea, since he has more and more lovers now, and the amount of Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves he needs is also increasing. The more Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves, the better.
Low-Level Longevity-Enhancing Pills are probably not very useful for Lu Yang and Hongyan.
After all, Lu Yang's talent was getting stronger and stronger, and his cultivation was improving faster and faster, so his lifespan was inexhaustible.
His several female companions, thanks to the rewards of the Beauty Cultivation Plan, are also improving their talents and have a promising future, so they naturally have no need for this thing.
However, it's possible to use it on people close to Lu Yang, such as the elders of the Lu Household or close family members of his mistress.
For example, Lin Xuanchen, the Supreme Elder of the Golden Red Sword Sect, is the same.
Lu Yang happily packed everything away, then said to Qin Nanyue, "Alright, let's check all the other spoils and see if there are any treasures left in these Ruins."
Qin Nanyue nodded, broke free from Lu Yang's embrace, and then picked up and counted the Storage Bags of the other cultivators one by one.
The other Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators had more valuable items in their Storage Bags than ordinary Rogue Cultivators, but they were still just Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators after all.
Only the cultivators from the Chi Household and Xu Household had some money in their Storage Bags, but it wasn't a lot, far less than that of the young man with quite good fortune.
Qin Nanyue took these things herself with great pride, saying they were her own spoils of war.
Lu Yang shook his head and chuckled. All these things combined probably didn't even amount to 200,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, yet they made her so happy.
Perhaps that's why money earned by oneself tastes better?
After taking stock of their spoils, the two entered the ruins.
The Ruins of this Sword Dao sect are filled with crumbling walls and dilapidated buildings, covering an area of several kilometers and encompassing a large portion of the island in the lake.
It's clear that the buildings in this area weren't too bad back then, but unfortunately, time has taken everything away.
Qin Nanyue told Lu Yang that they would split up to look for fortuitous opportunities, so she started searching in another direction.
Looking at the ruins, Lu Yang muttered, "This godforsaken place looks dilapidated, but could there be anything good inside?"
Qin Nanyue, who was rummaging around on the other side, snorted, "Then you can just watch from the side. When I find something good, you'll be so envious!"
Lu Yang replied calmly, "Haha, I'm so envious."
Qin Nanyue felt humiliated. She glared at Lu Yang angrily, waved her snow-white fist, and declared confidently, "You wait! I'll definitely find something good!"
As she spoke, she became even more energetic, even using her hands to turn over all the rubble she could see and touch the possible traces of Ruins on the broken walls and eaves.
Seeing Qin Nanyue's enthusiasm, Lu Yang became more interested and decided to look through it himself.
In front of Lu Yang, there was a huge boulder, more than ten meters long and wide, which had fallen from somewhere.
Lu Yang raised his right foot and lightly kicked out. "Go!"
The rock, which resembled a small mountain, shot out in an arc and landed in the ruins a kilometer away with a muffled thud.
The sound startled Qin Nanyue, who quickly turned her head to look.
Seeing that it seemed to be Lu Yang who had caused the commotion, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as Qin Nanyue was about to refocus her attention on finding the treasure, a cracking sound came from the ground in front of Lu Yang.
Then, the ground opened up in all directions, revealing a tunnel.
Qin Nanyue: "?"
She stared blankly at the suddenly appearing tunnel, a huge question mark slowly forming in her mind.
"An underground passage?!"
Qin Nanyue opened her mouth, murmured, and looked on in disbelief.
How could that be??
I searched so diligently and found nothing, how did this guy just casually kick something and create an underground passage?!
Qin Nanyue felt a pang of sadness. She quickly ran to Lu Yang's Lu Yang and saw him retracting his right foot that was about to step forward.
Below the right foot is a seemingly ordinary stone brick, now slightly dented.
Qin Nanyue immediately understood that this was the switch to open the underground passage.
She was instantly furious.
These stone bricks look so ordinary, who could possibly tell they're light switches!?
Lu Yang hadn't expected that he would actually step on the switch.
After kicking the piece of gravel away, he intended to continue walking forward, but unexpectedly, he stepped on a switch, which revealed an underground passage.
Lu Yang suddenly thought of the various heavenly materials and earthly treasures he had picked up on the ground yesterday and today, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.
My luck is definitely extraordinary.
He looked at Qin Nanyue and chuckled, "I didn't expect you to guess right; there really is a treasure trove here."
Qin Nanyue pursed her lips and muttered, "Hmph... that's not necessarily true. Maybe someone has already visited down there?"
Lu Yang gave her a half-smile, "I think you're just jealous of my good luck."
Qin Nanyue's pretty face immediately flushed red. "Me? I didn't!"
Lu Yang chuckled and stepped into the underground area, with Qin Nanyue quickly following behind.
The tunnel was dark, with no lights on either side of the corridor, and no crystals to provide illumination.
If they weren't both Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, whose physical bodies had evolved after their breakthroughs and allowed them to see clearly in the dark, they would probably have had to feel their way around.
The corridor wasn't particularly long; after walking up about a hundred steps, a dim light appeared ahead.
The two stepped down and soon arrived at level ground.
Then their view widened to reveal a basement about fifty meters in diameter. The walls of the basement were made of molten black metal, and the floor was covered with array patterns.
On the four walls, chains extended out and landed on a strange figure burning with black smoke in the center.
The figure appeared to be a pale-skinned man, but in some areas his skin had rotted, revealing bone and blackened flesh.
The black smoke was even thicker in this rotting area.
Above the man's head floated an ice-blue longsword, emitting faint light that merged with the array formations on the floor and the Formation Method Talismanic Script the chains.
Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue looked at the man. Qin Nanyue said thoughtfully, "This seems to be a seal. After so much time, this man's physical body has only decayed this much. He's incredibly powerful..."
Lu Yang looked at the man with some uncertainty.
He also agreed with Qin Nanyue that it was a seal.
However, he sensed a very faint fluctuation within the man's body, which seemed to be a fluctuation of the soul or perhaps a fluctuation of the Principle.
This guy seems to still have a sliver of life left?!
Based on the timeline of this Ancient Yue Secret Realm, these Ruins must have existed for at least several million years, right?
After such a long time, how could this man still have a trace of life remaining?
What level of powerhouse is this?
Just as Lu Yang was surprised, perhaps because of the long time that had passed, or perhaps because Lu Yang had opened the basement, signs of decay appeared on the floor and stone walls in a short period of time.
The array patterns gradually dimmed, and in some places even went out completely.
Then, the ice-blue longsword seemed to lose its spiritual light and fell directly from the sky to the ground.
As the ice-blue longsword hit the ground, the man who had been keeping his eyes closed, like a rotting corpse, suddenly opened them, his blood-red eyes filled with cruelty and savagery.
The black smoke surrounding him grew even thicker.