Blood Fiend Demon Lord! Profound Dragon Venerable!

There were a total of four Third Stage spiritual treasures in the Spirit Medicine Garden!

Each one was a rare and priceless treasure.

Their value was beyond measure.

The Seven-aperture Glazed Lotus: its lotus seeds could improve cultivation, purify spiritual power, and solidify one's foundation.

Its lotus platform, meanwhile, was the main ingredient for refining Third-grade Mid-tier Glazed Heart-Calming Pills. It could raise one's comprehension for a short time and resist Inner Demons.

The Jade Marrow Ganoderma was milky white throughout, crystalline and translucent, like white jade crystal. It contained immense life essence and could be called a sacred healing medicine.

Though these two were precious, to the family, neither could compare to the Golden Vein Tea Tree, which was half a grade lower than them.

Zhang Xuanchen looked at the spiritual tree, as thick as a thigh.

"They say Golden Vein Tea can produce Golden Silk Spiritual Qi, with miraculous effects of nourishing and widening the Meridians.

Drinking it over a long period can make a cultivator's Meridians more resilient, allowing them to bear more violent spiritual power.

It is the beloved treasure of body cultivators and sword cultivators.

It is enough to serve as the foundation of a family."

Then he shifted his gaze to the Seven-leaf Soul Returning Grass swaying faintly at the highest point.

A burning light shone in his eyes.

"Legend says the Nine-Revolutions Soul-Returning Grass can reverse life and death, mend cracks in the soul, and its Nine-Revolutions Life-Transforming Power possesses heaven-defying might, capable of remolding a cultivator's physique and purifying their origin.

This Seven-Revolutions Soul-Returning Grass should have extraordinary effects as well.

Unfortunately, the family has no Third Stage Spirit Planter. It is simply impossible to cultivate it successfully.

Among the Third Stage spirit medicines, only that Golden Vein Tea Tree has a relatively high chance of being cultivated successfully."

The next moment, Zhang Xuanchen began digging.

Even if he could not cultivate them, he still had to take them away.

He would keep the seeds and place the rest in the family treasure vault for storage. Whenever he wanted to use them, he could take them out.

He uprooted the Golden Vein Tea Tree along with the soil around its roots and placed it into the Storage Ring he had obtained from Chang Yanghong, then looked toward the more than thirty varieties of Second Stage spirit medicines around him.

The most precious among them was the Second-tier Top-grade Marrow-Cleansing Grass.

It was the main ingredient for refining Second-tier Top-grade Marrow-Cleansing Pills. Of course, it could also be refined directly, though its effects would not compare to the Marrow-Cleansing Pill.

After collecting all the spirit medicines into his Storage Ring, Zhang Xuanchen's gaze fell upon a Token.

It read:

"Secret Realm Center, Dragon God Cave Mansion, the place where fortune lies!"

The moment he touched the Token, a trace of guiding power appeared in his mind.

It pointed him toward the Dragon God Cave Mansion.

"What a fine open scheme! First, they hand out a huge sweet date, then reveal the location of the true opportunity.

If so, I'm afraid everyone will head for that so-called Dragon God Cave Mansion.

What exactly are they trying to do?

Even if some Great Power wants to seize a body and revive, they would not need so many people, would they?

This is truly sinister.

Could this Dragon God Cave Mansion be the Demon Sealing Ground?"

At that thought, Zhang Xuanchen felt a chill run down his back.

If it really was as he suspected, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But this was beyond his concern, and he did not have the ability to concern himself with it. Preserving his own life came first.

After collecting the Mystic Armor Ice Lion's corpse, he swiftly left the Spirit Medicine Garden.

Even though it was unlikely that anyone would come, he could not let down his guard because of that.

As time passed, night fell.

Zhang Xuanchen dragged his exhausted body into a valley.

Night was the best time for ferocious beasts to come out and hunt for food.

Thus, though he had not encountered many demonic beasts along the way, all of them had been powerful carnivorous demonic beasts.

After several battles, he had sustained considerable injuries.

The entire valley was wrapped in ink-black darkness, with only a sliver of night sky overhead leaking down faint starlight.

It outlined the jagged, grotesque cliff walls on either side.

The cool wind was bitterly cold, piercing to the bone.

"Traveling at night is too dangerous; the price is too great. I'll rest here for the night and refine a stalk of Marrow-Cleansing Grass to purge the pill toxins produced by the pills I've taken these past days."

Having made up his mind, Zhang Xuanchen found a concealed spot and carved out a small cave large enough for one person to cultivate in.

He set up a Formation, slipped inside, took out a stalk of Marrow-Cleansing Grass, and began refining it.

Dragon God Cave Mansion.

Magnificent and resplendent, two Gilded Coiling Dragon Pillars, each thirty meters tall, rose from the center.

Bright Rubies were embedded in them.

The ground was paved with glittering Gold Ore and covered in Stardust Sand.

A White Jade Dragon Throne covered in golden patterns stood upon the raised platform.

The entire Cave Mansion shimmered with flowing radiance, golden light blazing in all directions, sacred beyond compare.

The next moment, a layer of blood-black evil qi blanketed the Cave Mansion.

Then, a Dark Purple Demon-veined Fiend sat upon the Dragon Throne.

Blood seemed to flow through the patterns on its body, while its pair of vertical pupils burned blood-red like fire.

Two pairs of broken Blood Wings grew from its shoulders and back.

Every flap released large quantities of black blood mist.

"Hehe, Profound Dragon Venerable, in the end, This One still won!

Ten thousand years! This damned seal has trapped This One for more than ten thousand years!

But so what? It still could not kill This One!

Once This One breaks the seal, the human race will be slaughtered to the last!"

Then its Blood-colored Vertical Pupil turned toward somewhere in the east.

"Profound Dragon Venerable, you never imagined that This One would turn the place of your inheritance into a Demon Sealing Ground, did you?

Didn't you want to be a hero? This One will make you an Evil Demon reviled and beaten by all!

Serves you right!

If you had handed over control of the Secret Realm, why would there have been so much trouble?

Damn it! Damn it!

But none of that matters anymore!

Once This One blood sacrifices the living beings who come to the Dragon God Cave Mansion and breaks the seal, This One will roam free between heaven and earth, wreaking havoc wherever This One pleases!

Hahaha... Hahahahaha..."

Its laughter sounded as though it had risen from hell on earth, no different from a demon's whisper.

At the same time, the evil mist completely receded, and the Cave Mansion reappeared in all its sacred splendor. Even the demon's own evil qi was entirely withdrawn.

It transformed into a handsome young man wearing a Moon-white Gold-trimmed Daoist Robe, his hair black as ink, every gesture carrying the air of one who looked down upon all living beings.

Only the threads of wickedness in his eyes revealed his true identity.

Eastern Demon Sealed Land.

For hundreds of miles in every direction, everything was shrouded in evil Blood-Purple Mist.

From time to time, several terrifying monsters emerged from within the mist.

Unlike the outside world, a dilapidated Cave Mansion in the center of the mist flickered with golden light.

Within that golden light stood a motionless phantom, its eyes fixed tightly upon the direction of the Secret Realm Center.

This was a young man dressed in a Moon-white Gold-trimmed Daoist Robe.

His physical body was long gone, leaving only a trace of an unextinguished remnant soul.

"I never thought that I, Profound Dragon Venerable, who roamed unhindered all my life, would fall into the hands of an Evil Demon!

Alas, the Blood Fiend Demon Lord is exceptionally brutal, and after being sealed for so long, once it breaks through the seal, countless living beings will surely die!

Yet it has trapped me here, leaving me utterly powerless to stop it.

Unless... someone can break through the Demon Qi outside and reach me, there may still be a chance to destroy it completely!

But that is simply impossible."

Profound Dragon Venerable knew very well that although the Demon Qi outside was nothing to him, it was fatal to cultivators below the Golden Core Realm!

Even with the protection of a Third Stage magical artifact, they could not reach this place.

What was more, there were quite a few First and Second Stage monsters within the Demon Mist!

How difficult would it be to come here?