While chatting idly with Yue'er in his mind, Lin Xuan followed the winding stone steps upward. As the main altar of Spirit Herb Mountain, this peak naturally had restrictions forbidding flight, but once Lin Xuan cast the Light Body Technique, his speed was still extremely fast.
By now, he had changed into his sect's robes, and with an identity token for verification, though restrictions lay thick and checkpoints were numerous along the way, he passed through unhindered.
Before long, he arrived at a point about two hundred zhang from the summit.
Because Spirit Herb Mountain had hidden its light and bided its time, the Spirit Vein it occupied naturally could not compare with those of the righteous path's Three Giants, but it was still far superior to an ordinary second-rate sect. In particular, within ten li of the main peak, the spiritual energy was even more extraordinary.
As the sect's Grand Elder, Xu Jinqing naturally had his cave residence built in the place where the spiritual energy was purest.
Yet unlike the layers of restrictions along the way, the environment here was elegant, quiet, and secluded, without the slightest trace of traps.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Lin Xuan's mouth. He did not find it strange at all. This ancestor was an old monster at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, his divine abilities so strong that even compared to the Supreme Demon of Extreme Evil, he was not much inferior. If anyone dared come here to cause trouble, wouldn't that be an old birthday star hanging himself—tired of living too long?
He lifted his head and glanced at the stone steps before him. With a slight sway of his shoulders, Lin Xuan appeared several zhang away.
Soon, he reached the peak. It was extremely broad, covering an