Zhang Xiaohua still refused to give up. Using Earth Escape once more, he tunneled toward the deepest part of the jade mine, hoping to uncover the secret behind how the Incense-Passing Cult had preserved its Immortal Path inheritance.
Yet after tunneling for a long while, perhaps already reaching the depths far beneath the earth, he still found nothing. Moreover, the deeper he went underground, the stronger a force beyond human resistance became, trying to squeeze him back out of the earth.
"Perhaps... I was wrong? Though Primordial Qi beneath Mount Jiuhua is exceptionally abundant, this may not be where the Incense-Passing Cult passed down the Immortal Path?"
"Since that is so, I might as well gather more jade. If I happen upon some legendary jade marrow, that would be even better."
With that thought, Zhang Xiaohua turned to other ideas and began searching about at the deepest point he could reach.
As he searched, a powerful fluctuation of vital energy suddenly came from ahead. It had been detected by Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense as he swept it about indiscriminately. Joy immediately appeared on his face. Such a powerful fluctuation of vital energy was, nine times out of ten, emitted by some extraordinarily formidable magical artifact!
Yet when he drew near, the sight before him left him utterly dumbfounded.
Before him stretched a dazzling ribbon of five-colored radiance, like a rainbow bursting forth from the earth and rising straight upward. When Zhang Xiaohua swept it with his divine sense, his delight only deepened. Every shade in that five-colored brilliance was a piece of superior jade marrow—crystal-clear and incomparably splendid.
But just as Zhang Xiaohua was about to step forward and dig to his heart's content, he discovered that the entire rainbow-like jade marrow was wrapped within a powerful restriction, one the