At Master Qing's command, Shi Fuhu and Shi Xianglong didn't stop him.
They opened the door and let Li ChunJun enter alone.
The two of them stayed outside the door, without following him in.
They also made sure no one else could enter during this time.
Li ChunJun entered the room, and Master Qing's image appeared on the screen before him.
"Go straight, turn, then keep walking down the corridor."
He seemed to be busy with something.
Li ChunJun moved forward, crossed a building area spanning four or five hundred square meters, and reached the far end of the building.
Here...
There was an open hidden door.
Li ChunJun went through it and turned the corner...
Another corridor.
The corridor was deep, stretching twenty or thirty meters.
Li ChunJun estimated that he had reached the interior of the mountain on which the compound had been built.
Beyond the corridor, a hall came into view.
The hall was sizable, three or four hundred square meters.
Master Qing had somehow hollowed out such a massive cavern inside the mountain.
The most eye-catching thing in the hall was a large pill furnace, nearly two meters tall and more than a meter in diameter.
But there was nothing combustible beneath it. Instead, numerous array patterns had been carved into the floor.
A clear, gleaming gemstone was set into many of the array's nodes.
That kind of gemstone...
"Spirit Stones?"
"You're here."
Master Qing was putting one batch of materials after another into the pill furnace. He greeted Li ChunJun with a broad smile. "It'll be ready soon. Just wait a moment."
Li ChunJun said nothing. He walked over to the Spirit Stones.
He didn't pry one loose.
But simply standing beside them, he could feel every pore in his body cheering with delight.
It