Ye Fan and Jiang Xian climbed onto a huge rock. A faint light shone in the distance.
"The Great Thunderclap Temple should be in that direction!"
"All right, let's hurry over."
Jiang Xian spoke with Ye Fan. With that, the two hurried toward the light, with Liu Yunzhi and his two companions following close behind.
"That Jiang Xian seemed to say earlier that we're on Mars. The ground is covered in red soil and sand, which does match the descriptions of Mars. Humans can't survive on Mars at all, yet none of us are experiencing any adverse effects. There must be some huge secret here. Let's keep up," Liu Yunzhi told the two beside him.
Walking at the front, Jiang Xian soon reached a stretch of collapsed buildings.
"This should be the Great Thunderclap Temple. Let's hurry and loot some ritual artifacts. You can put them in the chat group's storage space," Jiang Xian reminded Ye Fan behind him, turning his head.
Jiang Xian was an advanced student, after all, and much faster than an ordinary person.
He soon spotted a Stone Buddha. It was probably an array's focal point and couldn't be taken away, or he would have put it into the chat group's storage space.
Jiang Xian saw an ancient bronze lamp beside the Stone Buddha. Wasn't this Ye Fan's starter weapon? He tossed it to Ye Fan, then continued searching and found quite a few more Buddhist artifacts.
After receiving the Bronze Eternal Lamp, Ye Fan looked at the Bodhi Tree in front of the temple. The long-withered Bodhi Tree still bore six translucent green leaves.
He walked beneath the nearly withered Bodhi Tree. The six translucent green leaves above gave off a faint light, which the soil absorbed. Ye Fan dug up the soil and discovered a Bodhi Seed. This was his most important cheat in the early stages.
After Ye Fan picked up the Bodhi Seed, he discovered that it rapidly absorbed the light given off by the green leaves, and all the leaves turned to ash. He was amazed. It truly lived up to its reputation as a supreme treasure that could enhance comprehension.
After seeing Ye Fan obtain the Bodhi Seed, Jiang Xian took two more Buddhist artifacts and gave them to him.
"Ye Fan, we've looted pretty much everything valuable. Go back inside the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin first. I'm going to farm revival coins."
Ye Fan nodded at his words and hurried back toward the Bronze Coffin.
Now only Jiang Xian, Liu Yunzhi, and his two companions remained in the Great Thunderclap Temple.
Jiang Xian glanced at the three. They had also found two Buddhist artifacts. He had collected all the others himself.
Jiang Xian turned his gaze toward the mottled, corroded bronze plaque above the Great Thunderclap Temple.
Liu Yunzhi and his companions searched for a long time without finding any other Buddhist artifacts. Liu Yunzhi picked up half a Vajra Pestle and swung it. It seemed to flash like lightning, glittering with golden light. This had to be one of those legendary magical treasures.
He looked toward Jiang Xian and found him staring blankly at the temple's plaque. He noticed that Jiang Xian had many Buddhist artifacts on him, and the bronze plaque looked extraordinary too. It had to be some precious treasure. The Vajra Pestle in his hand gave him considerable confidence.
"Jiang Xian, you've already taken several Buddhist artifacts. This bronze plaque should belong to us. Besides, you've taken so many Buddhist artifacts for yourself. Give us two," Liu Yunzhi shouted, brandishing the Vajra Pestle in his hand.
"That's right. This bronze plaque should belong to us, and give us two more," Li Changqing and Wang Yan echoed.
Jiang Xian felt that the people of the Shrouding the Heavens World really were reckless fools. Not just the cultivators-even the mortals were this reckless. He hadn't even wanted to bother with these minor villains. Did he look that much like an ordinary person? They actually dared to speak to him like this. It seemed the Vajra Pestle in Liu Yunzhi's hand had given him confidence.
Jiang Xian wasted no more words. The next second, before they could react, he had snatched the Buddhist artifacts straight from their hands. Then he rewarded each of them with a hard slap, knocking them to the ground.
"We were wrong. What we did before was wrong. Can you give the Buddhist artifacts back to us?" Liu Yunzhi pleaded, slumped on the ground.
"Heh!" Jiang Xian sneered and ignored the three.
Jiang Xian leaped up and pulled down the Great Thunderclap Temple's plaque. It might have been too heavy for an ordinary person, but to Jiang Xian, its weight felt just right.
The moment the Great Thunderclap Temple's plaque came down, the entire ancient temple began to shake. The Stone Buddha inside shattered outright and turned to ash.
Jiang Xian knew the little crocodiles were about to emerge. Those were all revival coins for him.
A little while later, a thumb-sized bloody hole appeared in each of the three companions' foreheads at the same time. Seeing their condition, Jiang Xian knew the little crocodiles had emerged.
Jiang Xian kept the Vajra Pestle and the entrance plaque, sending all the other Buddhist artifacts to Ye Fan through the group chat. He told Ye Fan that activating the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin required drawing divine energy from the Buddhist artifacts.
Then he walked outside the Five-Colored Altar.
Soon, Jiang Xian heard creaking sounds.
Several little crocodiles rushed toward him. Light flashed from the Buddhist artifacts, and the little crocodiles burst into bloody mist.
Jiang Xian checked his lives. Sure enough, he had gained a few. Hehe, I'm not leaving. I'll stay right here until the Buddhist artifacts run out of energy.
Rustling sounds kept coming as more and more little crocodiles rushed toward Jiang Xian.
Jiang Xian relied on the Buddhist artifacts in his hands to hold off the thousands upon thousands of little crocodiles. He wasn't afraid at all, because when he checked his lives after just this short while, he saw this.
[Lives: 23,584]
In just this short while, he had already gained over twenty thousand lives. Besides, he wanted to test this revival.
Soon, the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin suddenly shuddered. The Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram's divine power had been replenished. The Nine Dragons bus set off.
The Crocodile Ancestor could no longer hold back either. An enormous black hand reached for the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin. But the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin departed Mars outright, leaving that gigantic hand far behind.
The Buddhist artifacts in Jiang Xian's hands also ran out of divine power, their luster gradually dimming. The Crocodile Ancestor turned his gaze toward Jiang Xian, and Jiang Xian promptly killed himself.
After dying, Jiang Xian experienced a particularly wondrous state. Just as birds could fly and fish could swim, he could freely choose where and when to revive.
Jiang Xian came back to life, inside the bedroom of his villa in the Mingyue Residential Area of the Swallowed Star World.
Don't ask why he hadn't revived inside the coffin, because he was now completely naked. The only drawback to this revival was that his clothes were gone afterward. Equipment was fine, though; he could stash it in the chat group's storage space beforehand.
Jiang Xian checked how many lives he had left.
[Lives: 265,422]
Jiang Xian felt much more at ease now. But he would remember this grudge. The next time he saw the Crocodile Ancestor, he would definitely turn him into leather shoes.
Jiang Xian found another set of clothes in the bedroom and put them on.
[Jiang Xian: "Ye Fan, accept my world-travel request in a moment. After reviving, I returned to the Swallowed Star World. Keep in mind that you won't have clothes after reviving, so it's best to find somewhere deserted to revive. @Xiao Yan, Ye Fan, Fang Han, Shi Hao."]
[Xiao Yan: "Understood, group owner."]
[Fang Han: "Understood, group owner."]
[Shi Hao: "Understood, big brother group owner."]
[Ye Fan: "All right, group owner. You can come over anytime."]
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