Dislike of Drilling Large Holes

"Damn!" The Horse-faced Cultivator's bulging leather pouch was clearly his spirit stone bag. When Wei Suo opened it, he couldn't help but exclaim in his heart.

Compared to these high-level cultivators, Wei Suo was indeed still a pauper.

Moreover, the Horse-faced Cultivator seemed to have a penchant for collecting High-grade Spirit Stones. His spirit stone bag contained not a single Mid-grade Spirit Stone. Besides over fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones, the rest were over thirty High-grade Spirit Stones.

A High-grade Spirit Stone contained the same amount of spiritual energy as a hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones. Wei Suo had seen them before, but he had never owned one himself. To him, High-grade Spirit Stones were incredibly rare.

So, he couldn't help but take one out to examine it.

Its size was no different from Mid-grade or Low-grade Spirit Stones, but its color was milky white, and its luster was even more crystal clear.

Seeing Wei Suo actually studying a High-grade Spirit Stone, the Green Robe Old Man immediately shouted in anger, "You have time to study High-grade Spirit Stones? Hurry up and see if there's anything to save your life!"

Wei Suo broke out in a sweat and quickly put away the High-grade Spirit Stone, then began looking at the other items.

Besides a pile of spirit stones, the Purple Robe Old Daoist's Treasure Pouch also contained two white jade pill bottles, a golden foil daoist scripture, six golden willow leaf-like objects, and a black bead.

"This is a Golden Spirit Pill!"

Wei Suo took out the two white jade pill bottles, initially thinking they contained only Qi Replenishing Pills like Lin Daoyi's. However, one of the white jade pill bottles held twenty Qi Replenishing Pills, while the other contained three pale golden pills. Wei Suo immediately recognized them as Golden Spirit Pills, refined from the Demonic Cores of third-tier demonic beasts and several kinds of Spiritual Herbs!

Cultivators nowadays relied on spirit stones and pills refined from Demonic Cores for their cultivation. Pills like the Golden Spirit Pill, refined from third-tier Demonic Cores, contained less spiritual energy than a single High-grade Spirit Stone. However, the speed at which cultivators could refine them was much faster than absorbing the spiritual energy from High-grade Spirit Stones. Therefore, the price of one Golden Spirit Pill was over one hundred and ten Low-grade Spirit Stones.

Only Circulation Realm cultivators like the Purple Robe Old Daoist, who could kill high-tier demonic beasts, had the ability to cultivate using pills like the Golden Spirit Pill. Ordinary low-level cultivators, even though they knew that cultivating with pills refined from Demonic Cores would be faster, simply didn't have enough spirit stones to purchase such pills.

Even Wei Suo himself usually couldn't bear to spend the equivalent of dozens of extra Low-grade Spirit Stones to buy Golden Spirit Pills for cultivation.

"High-grade Profound Tier Cultivation Techniques?"

Picking up the golden foil daoist scripture again, Wei Suo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This golden foil daoist scripture of the Purple Robe Old Daoist, "Golden Liquid Pill Art," was actually a High-grade Profound Tier True Essence Cultivation Technique. Wei Suo had dreamed of a higher-level cultivation technique to replace the Purple Profound True Art, but now that he had the Heaven Mending Pill, he couldn't possibly re-cultivate the Golden Liquid Pill Art. This daoist scripture was, therefore, useless to him.

"A set of Magic Artifacts?"

When Wei Suo picked up the six golden willow leaf-like objects, he discovered they were six thin, fine gold flying blades, and the talismans on each of the six flying blades were different.

"Glimmering Flying Blades, Half Spirit Artifacts. They don't consume much True Essence." As Wei Suo examined this set of items with surprise, the Green Robe Old Man directly provided a cold answer, adding, "If your Yin Phosphorus Bone Sword is used up, and the Yin Charm Blade can no longer be used due to lack of True Essence, this set can still hold the fort."

"Offensive Half Spirit Artifacts?" A flash of surprise and joy appeared in Wei Suo's eyes, followed by a bitter smile.

Such a set of Magic Artifacts was extremely rare on its own, but now, for the opponents he was facing, such things seemed somewhat insufficient.

"What is this?"

Wei Suo couldn't understand the last black pill, which resembled a wax ball, from the Purple Robe Old Daoist's Treasure Pouch.

"Throat Sealing Pill," the Green Robe Old Man sneered contemptuously. "It dissolves in water, is colorless and odorless, but it can poison many fifth-tier demonic beasts to death. If you ever lose your mind and swallow this, even a hundred of you would be finished immediately. It seems this old Daoist was also a sinister character."

"Quicksand Talisman, Stone Pillar Talisman, Fire Shield Treasure Talisman. Having them is better than not having them." The Green Robe Old Man also quickly explained the miscellaneous items from the Horse-faced Cultivator.

"What is this?" Wei Suo opened another leather pouch of the Horse-faced Cultivator. At first glance, it only contained two items: a bag of white powder and a piece of silver fine gold, both appearing to be Artifact Refining Materials. He was somewhat disappointed. However, upon taking out the bag of white powder, Wei Suo became excited instead.

This bag of white powder was actually White Phosphorus Beast Bone Powder.

It seemed the Yellow Robe Cultivator's side had also planned for Tie Ce's people to be mutually damaged fighting the Heart Devouring Worm, and then they would go in to kill the Heart Devouring Worm.

With this bag of White Phosphorus Beast Bone Powder, if Wei Suo had bad luck and encountered a Heart Devouring Worm in the Green Wind Mausoleum, his chances of survival would increase significantly.

"This is Azure Silver, an excellent material for Artifact Refining!" The other piece, a silver fine gold about half the size of a fist, even surprised the Green Robe Old Man. "This miserly Horse-faced fellow actually has something like this on him?"

Wei Suo asked in surprise, "What is Azure Silver?"

The Green Robe Old Man replied impatiently, "It's no use telling you now. I'll tell you when you have a chance to go back alive."

Wei Suo didn't retort. After putting the spirit stones and the Dragon Tiger Ziwei Robe, and other items that were not immediately useful into the Purple Robe Old Daoist's black Treasure Pouch, Wei Suo calmed himself down, thinking about what he should do next.

But just then, with a rumbling sound, the ground trembled slightly. It was as if an earthquake had suddenly struck the Green Wind Mausoleum.

Upon hearing this sound, Wei Suo's face immediately fell. "Damn it, old man, I like crawling into small holes, not such big ones."

These muffled sounds were indeed coming from underground in the Green Wind Mausoleum.

In a dense forest on the northern side of the Green Wind Mausoleum, within several almost vertical holes that resembled mine shafts, flashes of light kept appearing as the muffled sounds echoed.

If one were to descend vertically down these mine shafts, they would reach the notoriously filthy underground palace of the Green Wind Mausoleum.

These ancient underground palaces were basically in ruins. Because they were in ruins, with some areas collapsed and others intact, the complexity of the Green Wind Mausoleum's underground palace, where even a single corner was larger than the Stone Maggot Cave, was no less than that of a labyrinth.

If one had to describe it in words, imagine a large city with millions of people experiencing a massive earthquake, causing utter chaos, and then falling into eternal darkness, never seeing the sun again. Even the old residents of such a city would likely be unable to distinguish east from west, and even if asked to find the road to their favorite brothel, they probably wouldn't be able to.

Not to mention the presence of many demonic beasts like Corpse Devouring Worms within.

Currently, in an underground palace deep within the Green Wind Mausoleum, Nangong Yuqing and her companions were surrounded by a group of Corpse Devouring Worms.

There were over thirty Corpse Devouring Worms in this group. The corpses they controlled were pitch black, their skin oily and shiny, making them look like people who had been soaked in black oil for who knows how long. The bodies of these thirty-odd corpses were contorted into incredibly uncomfortable poses, but they were charging towards Nangong Yuqing and the others from all directions at high speed, swinging their two dark, shiny arms, looking as if they intended to smash Nangong Yuqing and the others to death with their fists, or tear them to shreds.

Including Nangong Yuqing, there were only five cultivators surrounded. Liu Wu, whom Wei Suo had met in the Stone Maggot Cave, was among them.

In the center of the five people, a bearded cultivator dressed in coarse cloth raised his hand, and a circular, watermelon-sized lightning shield appeared around the five.

At this moment, thirty to forty of these bright lightning shields were densely suspended around them.

Any corpse that touched these bright lightning shields was electrocuted and twitched, looking quite comical.

Next to him, a short black-robed cultivator would erect many bamboo shoot-like stone spikes on the ground within a radius of one to two zhang with each spell, immobilizing the struck corpses.

Nangong Yuqing, Liu Wu, and another young cultivator with a sallow complexion focused solely on launching offensive spells. The sallow-faced young cultivator, dressed in a conspicuous emerald green magic robe, was actually a cultivator at the first level of the Circulation Realm. With each spell he cast, a corpse was cut into several pieces by five dark green light blades he emitted.

The five people's offense and defense were very synchronized, and dealing with these over thirty Corpse Devouring Worms was actually quite easy, even more than enough. In just a moment, over ten Corpse Devouring Worms had been killed by them.

However, the faces of these five people, including Nangong Yuqing, all showed a slight expression of surprised uncertainty.

"Nangong Yuqing, what's going on?" Suddenly, Liu Wu sensed Nangong Yuqing's obvious strangeness beside him and quickly turned his head to ask.

Nangong Yuqing said with some disbelief, "He actually came."

Liu Wu and the other three cultivators looked at the somewhat stunned Nangong Yuqing in confusion: "Who?"

"It's Wei Suo, whom you've met. This message jade slip only lights up when he's within three hundred li. This underground palace goes a hundred li deep into the ground, so he must be near an entrance to the Green Wind Mausoleum gathering place right now." Nangong Yuqing glanced at the still-glowing message jade slip in her hand and said to Liu Wu and the others, "Logically, he shouldn't be coming to Green Wind Mausoleum at this time. And the fact that he's using a message jade slip here means he knows I'm here and wants to pass on some message to me."

"Something does seem a bit off," the Yellow Robe Cultivator, a young man with a yellow face and cultivation at the first level of the Circulation Realm, said in a deep voice. "We split into three groups to search for the Heart Devouring Worms, and it's unlikely we'd be attacked simultaneously in all three locations. Moreover, these Corpse Devouring Worms aren't acting like they usually do; it's as if they're just trying to delay us from meeting up with the other two groups."

"How is that possible! Corpse Devouring Worms don't have that kind of intelligence," the short, black-robed cultivator immediately shook his head, emitting a sharp, high-pitched voice.

The Yellow Robe Cultivator, who seemed to be the leader among the five, pondered for a moment. "Regardless, let's meet up with Nalan Bing and the others as soon as possible, and then we'll try to get in touch with Nangong Yuqing's friend."