Entering the Cave
Unable to find any openings in the surrounding rock walls, the Black Armor Gu searched the top of the cave.
Hard work pays off!
After nearly an hour, they finally found a tiny hole in a depression at the top of the smaller, gourd-shaped cave.
After the Black Armor Gu ascended more than ten meters along the hole, the hole gradually began to enlarge. After ascending several more meters, the hole became Vertical Tunnel that people could pass through.
The Vertical Tunnel twists and turns, winding upwards.
After flying upwards for nearly a hundred meters, the Black Armor Gu appeared in a cave.
The cave is filled with stalactites and stalagmites, and water droplets fall from the cave ceiling from time to time.
Song Wen emerged from the lake and, relying on his connection with the Black Armor Gu, headed towards the cave.
This cave is located inside a Xiao Shan. Guided by the Black Armor Gu, Song Wen successfully arrived at the Vertical Tunnel.
He jumped down and fell a hundred meters through the Vertical Tunnel, where Vertical Tunnel suddenly narrowed and became impassable.
Song Wen took out a mid-grade Law Artifact flying sword, which he had bought in East Birch Market to use as a cover.
Holding his flying sword, Song Wen began cutting through the rocks, placing the scrap stones he cut into his unused storage ring.
This storage ring originally belonged to Wu Ren. It was the largest storage ring in Song Wen's possession, with a space of two hundred cubic meters, enough to hold all the stones dug out from the more than twenty-meter- Vertical Tunnel.
After spending most of the day, he finally broke through the Vertical Tunnel and successfully entered the underwater cave.
After walking for several miles through the craggy caves, we finally came to see the mysterious altar.
Song Wen circled the altar and found that the altar and the array on the ground exuded an ancient and mysterious aura, unlike the style of the current Cultivation World.
Lei Tianyu clearly used this formation to devour Sun Ru's Thunder Method talent.
Upon first witnessing a formation capable of devouring another's talent, Song Wen felt both amazed and deeply terrified.
Even talents can be plundered; this formation and altar truly defy the creation of heaven and earth.
"Thunder Method talent can devour, I wonder if Spirit Root can too."
If one could even devour Spirit Root and talents, wouldn't that create the legendary Ninth-Grade Spiritual Root?
Song Wen had a vague feeling that this altar shouldn't be able to plunder other people's Spirit Root and talents. Otherwise, Lei Tianyu could have directly transformed himself into Ninth-Grade Spiritual Root, and his cultivation would have advanced by leaps and bounds. Why would he need to devour Thunder Method talents to enhance the power of Thunder Method?
Before absolute cultivation and strength, even the most powerful Technique Method are nothing but illusions and meaningless illusions.
"But according to Ai Kun, the mainstream theory in the Cultivation World about cultivators being able to cultivate Thunder Method is that their fire-attribute Spirit Root have mutated and they now possess lightning-attribute Spirit Root."
"How could this formation possibly devour a person's Thunder Spirit Root?"
"Could it be that the Cultivation World's speculation about the Thunder Spirit Root is wrong?"
After thinking for a long time without any clue, Song Wen stopped thinking about it.
He turned to look at the rubble piled high with corpses.
Sun Ru's body was still lying there, face up. Due to the immense pain she had suffered before death, her eyes were bulging out, wide open, and she died with her eyes wide open, unable to close.
Beside her body lay the remains of an unidentified Demon Beast with four hooves, long dead and decayed into a rotten skeleton.
Upon seeing the Demon Beast's skeleton, Song Wen suddenly recalled the image of Kou Chang riding Azure Bull.
A smile played on Song Wen's lips as he murmured softly.
"That's interesting!"
Song Wen walked around the cave again, and apart from the altar and the array, there was nothing else in the cave.
He arrived at the bottom of the Vertical Tunnel, leaped up, and headed towards the cave above.
When excavating the Vertical Tunnel, he deliberately made Vertical Tunnel wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, so that he could easily block Vertical Tunnel up with stones.
He took out a suitable large stone from his storage ring and used it to plug up the Vertical Tunnel he had dug.
After blocking more than ten meters, the large stones were all used up, and the remaining small stones were no longer suitable for blocking the Vertical Tunnel.
Song Wen flew directly into the cave and found a huge rock inside.
He picked up the boulder, walked to the entrance of the Vertical Tunnel, and used the boulder to block the entrance.
Turning around and leaving the cave, Song Wen East Birch Market. Along the way, he casually tossed the stones from his storage ring into some inconspicuous corners.
It was already afternoon when we returned to the market.
Upon reaching the entrance of the Small Courtyard, Song Wen glanced at Sun Daxiong's house next door. The gate was still tightly closed, and the courtyard was very quiet. Sun Daxiong, who had gone out to hunt Demon Beast, had not yet returned.
Sun Ru's death has not yet been discovered by anyone.
Song Wen pushed open the gate to his courtyard and went inside.
Two days later, at dawn.
Despite his back injury, Sun Daxiong appeared at his doorstep looking radiant, clearly having had a successful hunting trip.
Pushing open the courtyard gate, not seeing his daughter, Sun Daxiong shouted loudly.
"Xiaoru, Daddy's back! Come out quickly! Daddy hunted a blue wolf this time. And that mid-grade Law Artifact flying sword you had your eye on last time, Daddy bought it for you."
After waiting for a while, he found that his daughter did not run out of the house happily as he had imagined, as she usually did.
Sun Daxiong's smile vanished instantly, and he muttered something in confusion.
"Where did this girl go today? Did she go for a stroll in the market?"
Sun Daxiong, talking to himself, strode into the house. When he reached the door of Sun Ru's room, his expression changed drastically.
Sun Ru's room door was wide open, but the room was empty.
What truly terrified him was that the Six Jia Formation, which he had bought to protect his daughter who was home alone, had been forcibly breached. The Formation Plate was still on the couch inside the house, the Formation Flags were still there, and there were still Spirit Stone with undiminished Spiritual Qi in the base of the formation.
But the formation stopped functioning.
The formation has been forcibly breached from the outside!
A bad feeling instantly crept into Sun Daxiong's heart.
He turned and ran anxiously out of the courtyard, shouting loudly as he ran.
"Xiaoru, Xiaoru... where are you...?"
Having received no response, Sun Daxiong ran all the way out of the Small Courtyard and headed towards the market enforcement team.
Two quarters of an hour later, an enforcement team consisting of seven Late Qi Refinement Beast Taming Sect arrived outside Sun Daxiong's courtyard.
After investigating the scene and interviewing neighbors, they obtained no useful information.
They found no trace of Sun Ru leaving on her own initiative, nor any lingering traces of an intruder.
All the neighbors, including Song Wen, said they had not seen Sun Ru in the past two days and had not noticed anything unusual about her.
Unable to find any useful information, the enforcement team classified Sun Ru as a missing person and hastily withdrew.
East Birch Market is home to many Rogue Cultivators, with a large number Rogue Cultivator each year and new Rogue Cultivator joining. The disappearance of Sun Ru wouldn't cause any ripples here.
Only Sun Daxiong was dejected, kneeling at the entrance of his own courtyard.
This tall, robust man didn't utter a single groan even when severely injured by Demon Beast.
With a blank expression and vacant eyes, he stared at the empty courtyard and house, slapping himself repeatedly across the face.
His face was swollen from being slapped, and blood was spilling from the corner of his mouth, but he was completely unaware.
It seemed as if he was blaming himself for not taking good care of his daughter and felt guilty towards his deceased wife;
It was as if she was blaming herself for not coming back sooner...
Knowing full well that the market has been unsettled lately, with over twenty Rogue Cultivator mysteriously disappearing in recent months, why would he still go out to hunt Demon Beast?