The Wonders of a Divine Ability

Zhou Ning has pushed the [Earth Marrow Fluid-Drawing Instruction] to its limit.

After a stick of incense had burned, he finally finished refining the stalactite in front of him, and immediately floated to another new one next to him, repeating the same trick.

He Zhuoran's spiritual energy was depleted from the attack, and a long wisp of black smoke appeared.

"Brother Zhou, quickly give me a drop to replenish my energy!"

Zhou Ning moved the jade bottle over, He Zhuoran took a peck at it, and then went back to resist the magic Law Artifact.

Zhou Ning encouraged him. "Brother Zhuoran, you endure what ordinary people cannot endure, and you achieve what ordinary people cannot achieve!"

Outside the cave entrance, Wu Daoqi was exhausted and had no choice but to remove the Law Artifact "Splitting-Fang Nail Seal."

"You guys take over, I'll rest for a bit."

The crowd exchanged bewildered glances. Yang Gu from the Yang Flame Sect stepped forward, holding a spiral awl, and sneered:

"Let me show you all the magic Law Artifact I specially brought to break the formation: the Gang-Splitting Thunderfire Awl!"

Having said that, he tossed it upwards, and the cone was covered with fine, sharp edges, gleaming with lightning.

He thrust forward, the sharp tip piercing the black light barrier, the tip spinning wildly at an extremely high speed, exploding with fire and lightning!

A crack was forcibly pierced through the black light curtain, accompanied by a terrible "crackling" sound.

"Hahaha, the formation won't last long!" Yang Gu.

"Gentlemen, if there are any treasures inside, I'd like to choose one first!"

He Zhuoran was in so much pain that he could barely stand it, and the "gurgling" sound was forced out of his throat.

He was in a daze, and Zhou Ning's encouraging words kept echoing in his ears:

"Brother Zhuoran, even if a fierce wind rises, one should never give up on life!"

"Brother Zhuoran, the hardships you endure now will turn into abundant rewards in the future!"

He Zhuoran couldn't take it anymore. "Brother Zhou, I'm about to crack! How many more strands do you still need to refine?"

Zhou Ning had only filled about half the bottle, a speed far He Zhuoran's.

He replied, "If you practice eighteen more, there will only be three left."

"What? Only three more are needed, and you've refined them so quickly..." His mind was blurred, and he couldn't distinguish between good and bad words.

Seeing that he really couldn't hold on any longer, Zhou Ning finally fell from the sky.

He made a Method Formula seal, and the Divine Ability [Immovable Mountain] was activated.

The shadow of the black tortoise shell was reflected all around it. The shell trembled violently, a burst of spiritual light flashed, and the shell suddenly grew to three feet larger.

Bigger! Bigger! Even bigger!

The patterns and symbols on the nail were bright, and a strange Daoist aura flowed around it, with illusory mountains and rivers appearing.

Feeling the tortoise shell, large enough to block the entrance of the cave, Zhou Ning felt as if he were an ancient tortoise, indestructible.

"Is this the power of the Purple Mansion?"

Zhou Ning was shocked; it was just a casual tap of his Purple Mansion.

He stepped toward the cave entrance, and the earth beneath his feet seemed to continuously infuse him with power with each movement.

Zhou Ning pulled off the black veil and said, "Brother Zhuoran, now it's my turn!"

He Zhuoran gradually regained consciousness, and looking at the steady and composed Zhou Ning, he couldn't believe it:

"Purple Mansion Divine Ability?"

Standing amidst the illusory light and shadow, enduring the attacks of Law Artifact, Zhou Ning urged, "Hurry up and refine the Earth Spirit Milk! We'll split it equally!"

"Okay, okay." He Zhuoran's black smoke slowly rose to the side of the stalactite.

As he refined the essence, he thought to himself, "Brother Zhou's background is equally extraordinary. After the Chai Household fell, he even managed to associate with the Purple Mansion cultivator."

"And he's a cultivator of Wu Earth? Could it be True Person Lu?"

Meanwhile, outside the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven, in the mountains some unknown distance away.

On a certain mountain, a giant, dark tortoise lay sprawled. True Person Lu, huddled inside its shell, pondered:

"I wonder how well that kid is doing in the grotto-heaven?"

If it weren't for the cave's cover, preventing him from seeing, he could even sense Zhou Ning's situation using his Divine Ability.

The Celestial True Person Huajing was surrounded by numerous fiery beasts and strange phenomena.

True Person Lu could only lie there obediently.

There was no other way. He sensed that there were at least two True Person Immortals guarding the Great Void. Rather than hiding in the Great Void, he might as well stay here and at least absorb some of the earth's energy.

True Person Lu closed his eyes and continued to feign sleep.

"Once that brat Zhou retrieves the Earth Marrow Withered Wood Heart for me, enhancing my Divine Ability, I'll avenge today's humiliation sooner or later!"

"Gentlemen, perhaps... we should... retreat?"

Yang Gu was truly exasperated. He used pills and took turns attacking with Wu Daoqi, bombarding the formation for a long time, but they still couldn't break it.

All that effort for nothing.

"Forget it, if I had known I had this much time, I would have gone to try my luck elsewhere!" Wu Daoqi gave up.

Yang Gu put away the Thunderfire Awl: "That's right, only Li Chonglou can probably break this formation."

"Hmph! Now that he's here, is there any left for us?" a woman said unhappily.

Everyone in Land of Wei knows that the disciples of the Treasure Sect are arrogant by nature and look down on cultivators from other sects.

"Even if this place is destroyed, we must not let the disciples of the Treasure Sect benefit from it!"

The group largely agreed, noting that the various families in Land of Wei had long suffered under the influence of the Firmament Treasure Sect.

"Alright, Fellow Daoist Mei Ying, let's go."

The group gradually disappeared into the distance.

Zhou Ning looked at the black smoke rising from the ceiling and asked, "Brother Zhuoran, how is it?"

He Zhuoran was in high spirits. "Only three more are needed. Even if we don't get any treasures later, we've still made a fortune this time!"

For their Aristocratic Clan alchemists, the Earth Spirit Milk has many wonderful uses, and their ancestor would surely be delighted to obtain it.

These Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators, after exhausting their spiritual energy in battle, could replenish it with a single Origin-Restoring Pill —how incredibly powerful!

It's no less valuable than a second life.

Seeing that there were not many left, Zhou Ning did not help and continued to guard the cave entrance.

Having finally made it to Land of Wei, he wasn't satisfied with just taking the Earth Spirit Milk. He still hadn't found the Calamity-Severing Grass and the Soul-Searching Technique, and he also needed the Earth Marrow Withered Wood Heart.

Half an hour later, He Zhuoran had completely collected all the Earth Spirit Milk, filling ten jade bottles.

He was just about to come over and share the treasure with Zhou Ning when he suddenly saw Zhou Ning make a gesture.

Outside the cave, a woman walked over. She was dressed in a dark plum blossom fairy dress, with a graceful figure and a faint smile on her lips.

"Hmph, who wants to break the formation with you all? I should enjoy it all by myself!"

She flicked her Storage Bag, her fingertips twirling a jet-black talisman.

Zhou Ning was stunned. This talisman looked exactly like the Restriction-Breaking Talisman in Guo Changying's hand, except that the talisman's surface was much more mysterious.

He maintains the [Immovable Mountain] Divine Ability.

Mei Ying took the Restriction-Breaking Talisman and slapped it onto the light barrier, causing it to burst forth with dazzling white light.

Zhou Ning commented. "It feels... not as good as... the Thunderfire Awl..."

It's possible that the Restriction-Breaking Talisman specifically designed to break formations, but it's not a formation itself; rather, it's a defensive Divine Ability.

He Zhuoran frowned and said, "Mei Ying has always been known for her straightforward personality in public, but I never expected her to be so treacherous behind the scenes!"

You can know a person's face, but not their heart!

"Hmph, I despise this kind of wicked woman the most!" Zhou Ning agreed.

He had an idea. "Watch me play her!"

So they deliberately coordinated with the manipulation of the array to simulate the scene of the light shield cracking under white light.

Mei Ying saw a large hole break in the barrier, and her spiritual light dissipated.

Knowing that the talisman had worked, she immediately beamed with joy. "It's done!"

A smug look appeared on her face. "A bunch of fools! Today I alone possess all the treasures!"

As she spoke, she rushed in impatiently, only to bump headfirst into something invisible.

Zhou Ning stirred the tortoise shell, which bounced her back again.

Mei Ying stepped back a few paces and saw that a solid light barrier had appeared inside the breach.

Her vision went black, and she felt utterly hopeless and incredulous.

"What kind of formation is this? It's layered upon layer, how can anyone break it?"

Unwilling to give up, she took out her magical Law Artifact and bombarded it several times, but the protective barrier remained unmoved.

Mei Ying finally despaired. She had wasted so much time and an expensive Restriction-Breaking Talisman, only to gain nothing in the end.

Filled with resentment, she stomped her foot and spat at the formation, saying bitterly:

"If I achieve success in my cultivation one day and enter the grotto-heaven again, I will surely slap you to pieces!"

Then he stormed off in a huff.

Zhou Ning scoffed, "Besides getting me covered in your saliva, what other skills do you have?"