Looting Treasures, Attaining the Dao Ahead of Time!
The traces deep within the mountain were instantly smoothed out by the ripples of the Space Dao overflowing from the Xu Yan Ring.
While the front lines were engulfed in fierce fighting, the spoiled rich kid guarding the gold mine in the rear hadn't even honed his fighting Divine Ability to a decent level.
Shi Jian chuckled inwardly, his gaze passing over the broken jade throne and landing on the gate carved from a single piece of ancient green jade.
The door is engraved with densely packed, complex fifth-order Dao patterns.
Behind this door lies an important military treasury of the Spirit Race in the Dao Realm. It is capable of supporting so many cultivators on the front lines, so it must contain a large number of treasures.
Shi Jian did not launch a reckless attack.
Breaking the seal by brute force would surely trigger some hidden agendas and attract the attention of the Spirit Race's patrol guards; he forced out a Essence Blood from the body of the Wood Spirit Array Master he had just killed.
A faint spark of lightning flickered at his fingertips, guiding the drop of emerald Essence Blood to transform into fine blood threads, which slowly seeped into the core array eye on the door.
Buzz!
The array patterns on the surface of the jade gate trembled slightly, accompanied by the crisp sound of the mechanism meshing, and the heavy gate slid open from both sides.
The moment the door opened, a surge of vitality and spiritual energy burst forth like a dam bursting, even restoring some of the previous losses.
Even for a Nascent Spirit Transformation like Shi Jian, whose Three-Foundation Perfection were at their peak, the pure energy wave swept over his body, causing his Dao of Lightning Immortal Foundation to unconsciously accelerate its circulation several times.
"What a grand gesture!"
Shi Jian clicked his tongue in amazement. Upon entering, he found that the entire underground secret realm, spanning hundreds of miles, was divided into several independent, enormous storage chambers.
The outermost shelves, constructed entirely of dark wood, were neatly stacked with tens of thousands of white jade boxes.
Shi Jian swept his Divine Sense over the box and found that it was filled with rare and precious spirit medicine that were hundreds or thousands of years old, with the lowest grade being third rank or higher.
Plants like the Rejuvenating Azure Ganoderma, the Nine-Leaf Earth Spirit Grass, and even the Flesh-Generating Blood-Transforming Vine, which is almost extinct in the outside world, are piled up here like ordinary weeds.
The Spirit Race plundered dozens of small tribes in the south, sweeping away the medicinal gardens that those tribes had accumulated over tens of thousands of years, and turning them all into supplies here.
This large quantity of spirit medicine, whether consumed directly or refined into pills, represents a significant amount of military resources.
Although it might not seem like much to someone at the Spirit Transformation stage.
However, it can support a large number of Golden Core Demon Cultivator at the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, which is a valuable asset for the Lightning Bear Line.
This greatly compensated for the lack of foundational knowledge in the Lightning Bear Line.
Shi Jian was overjoyed. With a flick of his sleeve, he unleashed a burst of light from his Xu Yan Ring, and the space of the Space Dao, like a bottomless maw, swept in piece by piece, including the wooden frame and the jade box.
Beyond the outer perimeter, the scene in the middle section of the warehouse was even more terrifying.
Thirty enormous crystal towers floated silently in mid-air, each containing a dazzling band of light, miniature like a swimming dragon.
That's Spirit Marrow Crystal.
Thirty mid-to-low-grade fifth-order Spirit Vein were forcibly compressed and refined into these finger-sized spiritual liquid crystals by a powerful being of the Spirit Race using the Spirit Stripping Secret Method, which drained their foundation from the earth.
This stockpile, enough to support a top royal family's extravagant spending for hundreds of years, is now being hoarded here as strategic consumables to support the front-line formations.
In addition, a large number of fourth-tier and countless third-tier Spirit Vein were all processed into Spirit Marrow Crystal for the army to manage.
"These Spirit Race scum, no wonder the vast, barren lands of the south have all been drained dry here."
Shi Jian's eyes turned slightly cold, but his actions showed no hesitation.
The lightning transformed into several thick chains, shooting out into the air and precisely locking onto thirty glazed pagodas, uprooting them and pulling them all into his personal space.
Further in, the core area of the warehouse is separated by a layer of dark red Blood Sha restriction.
Through the barrier, ninety-nine bronze Pill Cauldron hovered silently, each with Spirit Sealing bearing the mark of Dao Venerable affixed to its mouth.
Even with multiple seals, the cauldron still exuded a rich medicinal fragrance that sent shivers down one's spine.
Tribulation-Transcending Life Pill.
Ninety-nine in total!
Through the translucent cauldron, Shi Jian could clearly see the Dark Gold pills, each the size of a longan, inside; the surface of the pills was covered with distorted, lifelike faces, howling, begging for mercy, and weeping.
These are all the lingering resentments left behind by the myriad spirits of heaven and earth after their lifespan and vitality were forcibly stripped away.
A single Tribulation-Crossing Life Pill requires the sacrifice of the blood and life force of hundreds of thousands of living beings.
"Using the flesh and blood of countless spirits to refine medicine, extending the life of Spirit Transformation and propelling them to higher realms— the Spirit Race is indeed ruthless."
Shi Jian remained calm, raised his hand, and unleashed a torrent of blazing white Righteous Yang Lightning from his palm.
The purest and fiercest Yang lightning swept across like a tidal wave, instantly washing away the resentful and deathly aura that clung to the seal's surface, and taking all ninety-nine bronze Pill Cauldron into its possession.
Although such miraculous pills are against the natural order, if used to save lives or activate secret techniques in critical moments, their effects are several times stronger than ordinary divine medicines.
Having looted all these strategic military resources, Shi Jian was about to leave when his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a side hall at the deepest part of the secret chamber.
That side hall did not store any spiritual Spirit Vein; instead, it contained an extremely hidden blood jade altar.
Above the altar, three strange treasures emanating eerie Daoist charm floated.
The first item was a piece of charred, lightning-struck wood about the length of an arm; its surface appeared rotten, but in Shi Jian 'Dao of Lightning perception of lightning, a faint wisp of [Radiant Yang Lightning] energy was pulsating at the very core of this piece of dead wood!
Below the Divine Firmament Dao Fruit, another item required for the Immortal Foundation!
Shi Jian's heart skipped a beat.
He was currently worried about how to find the catalyst for the fourth Immortal Foundation after the Three-Foundation Perfection were perfected, but he never expected that such a treasure was hidden deep in the Spirit Race's military treasury.
Many cultivators of the Life Dao like items containing Yang Thunder, as they can use them to hone their life force. The Spirit Race collects these items mostly as rewards, which happens to benefit him.
The second item was a palm-sized, earthen-yellow bone armor.
The surface of the bone armor was engraved with mysterious and unpredictable patterns, exuding a vast and ancient Earth Dao aura, and even faintly revealing a trace of the ancient Dao mechanism of the [Earth Nurtures Spirit] Immortal Foundation.
"This is... a lost fragment of the Dao guide for Treasured Earth Dao Fruit?"
Shi Jian's pupils contracted slightly, and he instantly understood the key point.
In order to force Bailu Lingyuan to attain the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit, the Spirit Race secretly plundered countless ancient artifacts and relics related to the Treasured Earth.
This portion mostly consists of spare items that have not yet been sent to the core positions.
The third item was the strangest.
It was a broken small cauldron carved from an unnamed ancient jade, its body covered with cracks and devoid of any spiritual energy fluctuations.
But when Shi Jian approached within three zhang, the Xu Yan Ring on his right hand trembled violently like never before, as if it had encountered a supreme creation of the same origin.
"A fragment of the Supreme Treasure of the Space Dao?!"
Shi Jian gasped, then without hesitation, he spread his five fingers into a thunderous claw that blotted out the sky, and forcefully seized the three ancient artifacts into his palm, sealing them with multiple layers of seals and storing them in his storage space.
From the moment they stepped into the mountainside until they completely emptied the entire Xuan-Designation Number Three Military Storehouse, it took only a short while.
The underground vault, once brimming with dazzling treasures, is now as empty as a wasteland ravaged by locusts. Even the high-grade Spirit Stone embedded in the walls have been scraped clean by Shi Jian.
"Leave a way out for others? That's for the living."
Shi Jian sneered and slammed his right foot into the ground.
Boom!
The Purple Pivot Lightning and the Righteous Yang Lightning surged violently into the earth's veins, instantly detonating the remaining array circuits and earth vein spiritual energy within the entire mountain.
The blazing lightning and flames shot into the sky like a fire dragon, and the entire towering mountain collapsed from the inside, turning into a scorched and devastating wasteland that completely obscured all traces of his presence.
Having done all this, Shi Jian's figure had already silently vanished into the endless void layer using the Xu Yan Ring.
Instead of returning to Jade Abyss Pass by the same route, he followed the turbulent void, concealing his presence, and stealthily made his way to the flank of the battlefield deeper within.
However, less than a million miles after Shi Jian fled, a sudden change occurred.
At the southernmost edge of the sky, an immense and suffocating pressure from the Earth Dao suddenly shot into the heavens.
In that instant, the entire southern sky of the Dao Realm transformed into a dazzling, brilliant, dark yellow glazed color, brimming with boundless vitality!
The Earth Dao energy filled the sky like a vast ocean overflowing, and in the core forbidden area of Spirit Race, a ten-thousand-foot-long pillar of light pierced straight into the heavens!
"The five foundations are unified, and Heaven bestows its decree..."
Shi Jian stopped his escape and hid in the void, gazing into the distance. His expression suddenly became extremely serious. There was still a strange sound of someone proving their Dao!
The Bailu Lingyuan actually chose to trigger the interaction between heaven and earth ahead of time during the great battle, and began to forcefully break through to prove its Dao!
"Feeling the pressure from the beastmen, were you forced to attain enlightenment ahead of schedule?"
"The overall situation is still uncertain, but the Spirit Race is the first to become restless."