Lu Changsheng remained as clearheaded as ever, true to his cautious nature.
"An Innate Spiritual Root would have its origin damaged if forcibly uprooted, causing its grade to fall."
He took out a premium jade casket made from Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade, its interior containing countless layers of spatial arrays.
Then Lu Changsheng placed both hands on the rocks at the edge of the pool.
Golden Immortal mana surged out of his body, transforming into two invisible giant hands that plunged straight into the Earth Vein hundreds of yards beneath the pool.
"Today, this poor Daoist is taking the pool and the land beneath it, all in one go!"
Accompanied by the faintest sound of cutting.
Lu Changsheng forcibly dug out the entire pool, along with the ring of rocks around it, rich with moisture, without harming a single root of the Black Water Mysterious Lotus.
"Go!"
The enormous pool transformed into a streak of light and settled securely inside the premium jade casket.
With a click, the casket snapped shut. He stuck dozens of Breath Concealment Talismans onto it, then solemnly tucked it into the innermost part of his robes.
Once all this was done, the cave, which had been brimming with the life-giving aura of creation, instantly became silent and barren.
"Treasure secured. Retreat!"
Lu Changsheng didn't spare the empty cave another glance. He swiftly led Lu Ping'an out through the crack.
The moment they exited, the ten thousand dark-gold runes he had left on the array vanished. The blue, innate barrier closed once more, as though nothing had ever happened.
But Lu Changsheng knew that the spiritual treasures within the array had been completely stripped away. Before long, the innate array would lose the support of its origin and collapse entirely.
Before then, they had to fill in