Seven figures darted about rapidly, like seven dotted lines. But strangely, they only collided very rarely.
Each collision produces a tremendous sound, enough to drown out the sound of the Yellow River flowing nearby.
Suddenly, Tong Zhang leaped up, arms outstretched, like a roc swooping down.
Sigh
Several golden needles shot out from her hand, piercing fiercely into a yellow rock standing not far away.
The end of the gold needle was even connected to a transparent silk thread.
The silk thread was exceptionally strong, pulling her body to the side and causing her to reverse her attack, sliding diagonally into the distance.
"Trying to escape!!"
One of the Heaven Lock Sect threw a black chain outwards.
The enormous chain, resembling a black dragon, was flung through the air with a deafening whooshing sound, and slammed into the Heavenly Maiden's waist.
Bang!
A faint cracking sound.
The Heavenly Maiden instinctively tried to dodge, but she was already exhausted and unable to evade. She immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.
If she were wearing her original Treasure Armor, she could have absorbed some of the force.
But by this time, the Treasure Armor had already been given to Zhang Rongfang.
The heavy chains struck her like a leaf in the wind; the string in her hand snapped, and she drifted lightly towards the surface of the Yellow River.
Looking at the increasingly approaching turbulent river, Tong Zhang's eyes were indifferent. With a light flick of her wrist, dozens of golden needles shot out again, piercing into a protruding reef in the distance.
She pulled hard, and she floated sideways across.
He lightly touched the rocks with his toes and leaped towards the opposite bank of the river.
"Trying to run! Chase him!!"
The other five were surprised that she could notice the rocks in the river and use them to escape even in such a desperate situation.
This kind of environmental exploitation goes beyond common sense.
The reef was at least tens of meters away from them.
Immediately, Yan Xi and one of the Heaven Lock Sect, relying on their superior agility, descended towards the reef.
They attempted to use this opportunity to continue their pursuit.
Suddenly, a sharp whistling sound came rapidly from afar.
With a loud bang, a Shadow spun rapidly and crashed onto the reef.
The reef shattered, and rocks flew everywhere.
The center of the stone was exposed, inlaid with a huge Black Wheel that was more than a meter tall.
At the top of the Black Wheel, a figure suddenly appeared, rising from a half-squatting position to reveal his face.
The reef was broken, and there was nowhere to stand.
Yan Xi and the person from the Heaven Lock Sect could only separate and helplessly land on the shore.
"Who goes there!?" Yan Xi looked at Black Wheel in a cold voice. If looks could kill, the newcomer would have been killed countless times by now.
"It is against the principles of a gentleman for so many people to be chasing after a beautiful woman."
Above the Black Wheel, a man with short white hair, dressed in a pure white Daoist Robe, with arms that looked as if they were cast from silver metal, looked down at the five people.
He stood on one foot on the Black Wheel as if walking on flat ground.
His handsome face wore a smile that seemed to never change.
That smile instantly evokes images of sunshine, gentleness, compassion, and peace.
However, the smile was so perfect and radiant that it gave off a sense of artificiality.
Just like the high and mighty Statue in the temple.
"Who are you?!" Yan Xi stared at the other person in a deep voice.
Judging from the timing, strength, and speed of his intervention, this person's intentions are clearly hostile.
"My name is Ding Rui," the man replied, "I am merely a righteous man who cannot stand seeing people like you bullying weak women."
"Where did this brat come from? Crush him and keep chasing!" A member of the Heaven Lock Sect roared, holding a black chain. A deep pit exploded beneath his feet, and he leaped up like lightning, pouncing on the man.
With a whoosh, a black Round Wheel suddenly appeared in front of the person in mid-air, and the two landed side by side.
The burly man from the Heaven Lock Sect let out a miserable howl as his body was cut in two at the waist and fell into the river.
This sudden change drew everyone's attention to the black Round Wheel.
Although that person was a bit weak, he was still Internal Method Spirit Vein and a high-ranking member of the Heaven Lock Sect.
And such an immortal master... Gong Shuyin remained silent. Of all the people chasing her, she only spoke at the beginning and then remained silent.
Upon seeing the man in the white Daoist Robe who identified himself as Ding Rui appear, she became even more silent and quietly retreated.
She really didn't know that person.
But she recognized the weapon.
Although the markings have been removed and the patterns and symbols have been hidden.
But that shape and outline cannot be concealed.
"Wish Wheel! That's the Wish Wheel!" Yan Xi recognized the weapon's name and her eyes sharpened.
There is only one sect in the world that uses weapons like the Wish Wheel as its means.
Immediately, the remaining four people stopped moving.
The burly man from the Heaven Lock Sect who had been cut in two also crawled out of the river, his body regenerated, his face filled with fear.
The six people faced the White-Haired Man had fallen again. For a moment, they were locked in an eerie standoff.
Time passed slowly until the Heavenly Maiden's figure completely disappeared.
The White-Haired Man bowed slightly to the six people.
"Thank you for your presence, my friends."
From beginning to end, he wore that perfect, almost fake smile.
"It seems that there are still more kind-hearted people like us in this world. Don't you all agree?"
He raised his head, a flash of silver light passing through his eyes.
Whoosh! In the blink of an eye, he and the black Round Wheel beneath his feet vanished simultaneously, as if they had never been there at all.
Yan Xi snorted coldly and turned to leave.
Ding Rui clearly comes from the Heavenly Treasure Palace, a powerful force that cannot be easily antagonized unless one reports to the higher authorities.
Gong Shuyin remained expressionless, quietly watching the spot where Ding Rui had left, lost in thought.
The others, though unwilling, still dispersed.
The man from the Heaven Lock Sect who was cut in two was still cursing under his breath.
Gong Shuyin glanced at the group of people, then turned and strode away decisively.
Now that the Great Dao Sect has intervened, the Heavenly Maiden should be safe.
The Western Sect Great Dao Sect, which is currently rivaling the True One Sect, wouldn't mind giving them face.
He didn't care about a mere Heavenly Maiden.
After all, no one in the upper echelons believed that the Heavenly Maiden and her Imperial Tutor Damir could develop a method to counter Spiritization.
Those vying for the Secret Cache were mostly lower-level factions, who intended to use it as a tribute.
And from the moment the Heavenly Maiden left.
And so, everything came to a complete end.
The era of the Extreme Realm has finally come to an end. In its place is the era of the Western Sect and the Daoist Sect.
*** Heavenly Treasure Palace.
Zhang Rongfang sat upright at his desk in his bedroom, using a paperweight shaped like a lingzhi mushroom to weigh down a gray cloth, carefully examining the patterned map and the special cipher text of the Golden Wing Tower.
He is deciphering the ciphertext on the key one by one, following the ciphertext dictionary.
By candlelight, a document about Secret Cache and Human Seed gradually appeared before Zhang Rongfang.
"Finally out!"
After checking the last character, Zhang Rongfang breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back in his wooden chair.
Looking at the clearly recorded translation on the paper, he felt both curious and conflicted.
With the Eastern Sect collapsing and the Golden Wing Tower on the verge of destruction, what the Heavenly Maiden passed on to him at the last moment must have been something of paramount importance.
So he focused his mind and carefully read from the beginning.
The deciphering text briefly mentions what the Secret Cache contains.
Among them were hundreds of thousands of Golden Bead, and jewels, as well as various precious antiques and collectibles. The Heavenly Maiden herself also possessed some special Martial Arts Manual and secret Civilian Skill treatises.
Finally, and most importantly, are the records of the investigation into Spirit Transformation Ritual.
The second item is Human Seed.
The so-called Human Seed actually refers to three exceptionally talented geniuses whose ideas are recognized and appreciated by the Eastern Sect.
The cipher text contained instructions on how to contact the other two.
However, the identities of the other people were not revealed.
The manuscript concludes by mentioning that the source of the immortality of the Spiritization beings has been discovered.
And this secret is hidden within the Secret Cache.
"The source of immortality." Zhang Rongfang didn't care about money or anything else, but what he really cared about was the mystery of immortality after Spiritization.
This is precisely what interests him most now.
How to kill a Spirit Vein? Picking up the translated manuscript, he remained calm, quickly lit it with a candle flame, threw it into the fire pit, and let it turn to ashes.
'If this secret is true, then Eastern Sect's fate is not unjust.'
Even the Ling Ting relies on Spiritization to rule everything.
The same applies to the Great Dao Sect today.
The situation is probably the same for the True One Sect.
'All the surrounding forces are based on Spiritization, and he's the only one researching how to overturn the table. If he doesn't fall, who will?'
Shaking his head, Zhang Rongfang stopped thinking about it.
This Secret Cache is a hot potato; he absolutely cannot let anyone discover that he has the key.
Otherwise, even Heavenly Treasure Palace itself would never allow him to possess it.
Spiritization is also the foundation of the Great Dao Sect's existence.
Once the situation was turned upside down, he put away the key, knowing that everything would have to wait until later, when he had the chance to go out and search for treasure again.
But now.
He looked at his Attribute Panel.
The Free Attributes there is quietly being revealed.
It's three o'clock, time to try the Golden Toad Skill again.
Standing up, Zhang Rongfang returned to the center of the room and sat down on the Prayer Mat.
Calm your mind and body, empty your mind and body, and let your Qi and blood circulate evenly.
Several minutes later, he opened his eyes and looked at the Golden Toad Skill.
Laugh.
The three attributes vanished in an instant, and the words within the brackets of the Golden Toad Skill also blurred and disappeared.
"It's done!" Zhang Rongfang was overjoyed.
Suddenly, the smile on his lips froze.
Those three points of Free Attributes reappeared, and the Golden Toad Skill returned to its original state, still in the first stage of Hidden Moon, still at the First Layer of perfection.
"As expected, the first dose of medication is essential."
Feeling helpless, Zhang Rongfang stood up and reflected on the past few days.
He already went to the Pill Hall to ask today.
Strangely, not a single one of the Hundred-Year Red Ganoderma was found.
No one in the entire Pill Hall accepted his bounty posters.
That's strange.
The Pill Hall is the gathering place of the top pills in the entire Great Capital. Even if the Hundred-Year Red Ganoderma is extremely rare, it's not like there's no news about it at all.
And then Chui Xi before. She had just agreed to bring him Hundred-Year Red Ganoderma, and then she mysteriously disappeared. He couldn't help but wonder.
Thinking back to what his master, Chongxuan, had told him before—to not be half-hearted and to focus on his Civilian Skill.
Zhang Rongfang seemed to have a vague answer.
'No rush. If that's really the case, I'll try to go to Great Capital to buy the medicine tomorrow, and then I'll be able to tell if it's true or not.'
Compared to Yangshuo and Heavenly Treasure Palace, Great Capital are much larger and have more pharmacies, so you can always find a way to buy medicine.
It must be said that Chongxuan treated him well, but what he wanted was not to honestly cultivate Civilian Skill in the Heavenly Treasure Palace and transform into Spirit General.
If it really was his master secretly restricting him, he'd probably have to seriously think of a way to recommend a friend's book again—"A Certain Taste of Hogwarts."
Dalia Dursley stared at the recipe for "Avada Bite-a-Melon" and fell into deep thought.
Gryffindor love spicy food, Ravenclaw follow the rules of sauces, Slytherin advocate the original flavor of ingredients, Hufflepuff say that as long as it's edible, it's fine! Voldemort went on a killing spree more than a decade ago just to resist microwave ovens in the non-magical world?
Something's not right, is it? Where's the Hogwarts, the magical world?! Dalia casually pulled out her beloved kitchen knife and swung it around. "Mapo Tofu!"
The next moment, raging flames surged forth.
She sighed.
"This should count as magic, right? But there might be something wrong with how I traveled through time..."