Chapter 00159: Little Longevity Mountain (An Extra Chapter for Alliance Master Mianbei Wang Yu)
# Little Longevity Mountain (An Extra Chapter for Alliance Master Mianbei Wang Yu)
Chapter 159
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 159: Little Longevity Mountain (An Extra Chapter for Alliance Master Mianbei Wang Yu)
What lay inside Little Longevity Mountain was not something Lan Xiaobu intended to explore.
He was here out of pure curiosity and a touch of envy towards the Five Qing Monastery on Longevity Mountain.
If one day he truly had the chance to leave Yuan Continent and venture into the Great Desolate Universe, would he be able to see the real Five Qing Monastery? If the Great Desolate Universe indeed had it, he absolutely had to visit and see the formidable Zhen Yuanzi.
Of course, what he was even more envious of was the ginseng fruit.
To think that a fruit could extend one's life by three hundred sixty years just by smelling it, and eating one could grant forty-seven thousand years! The longevity fruit on him could only extend his life by twenty years, and even that was already one of the finest treasures in Yuan Continent.
It was hard to fathom just how valuable the ginseng fruit truly was.
"Let’s go, Ancient Path, we need to search for the Spirit Gathering Fruit..."
After standing outside Little Longevity Mountain for a good while, Lan Xiaobu sighed and gave Ancient Path a light pat on the head.
Ancient Path let out a low roar, then scratched at the ground a bit, continuing to express its discontent with a few more growls.
"What do you mean?" Lan Xiaobu looked at Ancient Path in confusion.
The creature seemed anxious, digging at the dirt again.
It appeared to remember something.
From the storage bag around its neck, it pulled out a spirit stone and tossed it at Lan Xiaobu's feet, then scratched at the ground once again.
"You mean there's a spirit stone inside?" Lan Xiaobu suddenly understood.
Ancient Path nodded eagerly, then shook its head.
Lan Xiaobu frowned; this creature couldn't speak or convey thoughts properly, which really made it troublesome.
Wait a moment, Lan Xiaobu recalled that since Ancient Path could use its storage bag, it must have divine sense.
With divine sense, it could convey its thoughts to him.
With that realization, he took out a jade slip containing information about spirit beasts from his ring.
Soon he found the answer: spirit pets had to recognize their master before they could share thoughts telepathically.
Ancient Path was his pet, but it hadn’t recognized him as its master.
Lan Xiaobu put away the jade slip.
He had no intention of having Ancient Path recognize him as its master since it was originally given to him by Luo Caisi.
Lan Xiaobu reached out with his divine sense and quickly perceived Ancient Path's thoughts.
Though its divine sense wasn’t strong, Lan Xiaobu understood what it meant and looked at Ancient Path with astonishment.
"You’re saying there’s a spirit vein below?"
Ancient Path nodded frantically.
Lan Xiaobu’s heart raced; a spirit vein! If it hadn't been for the one he obtained back then, how could he have achieved his current stature?
"Let’s go, take me to where the vein is so we can dig it out."
After patting Ancient Path's head, he suddenly remembered, "Ancient Path, how did you know there’s a vein here?"
From Ancient Path's proud expression, Lan Xiaobu realized this must be its talent.
This creature managed to catch the exceedingly rare silver glimmer fish in the Starless Sea, so discovering a spirit vein seemed less surprising.
"Hurry, lead me to the spirit vein’s location!" Lan Xiaobu felt a great urgency rising.
Earlier, he had tricked Hu You into believing that the Guihai Family had acquired a superior spirit vein.
Even someone like Hu You, a formidable Earth Immortal, had turned green with envy.
It was evident just how rare spirit veins were in Yuan Continent.
Even though the Qianyun Immortal Sect had gained a foothold in Wangying Mountain, their spirit vein had been absorbed by the Ancient Star Mountain, which was only a medium-grade vein.
It wasn’t impossible for Little Longevity Mountain to possess a spirit vein; after all, it used to be the birthplace of Spirit Gathering Fruits.
What spirit fruit could properly grow without a spirit vein?
Upon entering Little Longevity Mountain, Lan Xiaobu immediately felt the surrounding air turn frigid.
Before he entered, the sun had been shining brightly, but now, that warmth was lost, and deeper into the mountain, the air turned more chilling.
Everywhere he looked, collapsed shops and streets still bore stains of blood, remnants of the countless lives lost here.
Given that over a hundred thousand people had perished, it was no wonder the atmosphere felt so grim.
While Ancient Path trembled at the thought of the Earth Immortal’s primordial spirit, the cold aura here seemed to have no effect on it.
It continued to dart left and right as if it were quite familiar with this place.
"Wait a moment..."
Just as Ancient Path moved further ahead, Lan Xiaobu suddenly called it back.
He noticed that his divine sense had been compressed to a mere radius of ten miles, and he could no longer see the outside clearly.
Yet Ancient Path resumed its digging, and Lan Xiaobu immediately grasped the creature's intent: the spirit vein lay below.
When his divine sense delved downwards, it was blocked after just fifty meters, suggesting thick restrictions lay beneath.
"Not bad," Lan Xiaobu praised Ancient Path.
After entering, his divine sense was suppressed, likely due to some kind of formation.
Little Longevity Mountain had once been a bustling place, so restrictions against divine senses were to be expected.
As for finding a way out, Lan Xiaobu didn’t worry at all.
What mattered most to him was the spirit vein below.
If he could unearth a medium-grade vein, it would be a fortune.
Being a sixth-level formation master with the Universal Dimension Matrix, Little Longevity Mountain was merely a progenitor of Spirit Gathering Fruits.
What advanced formations could possibly obstruct him?
Immediately, Lan Xiaobu produced several flags to set up a formation.
First, he laid down a concealment array to hide their location.
Next, he arranged a spirit concealment formation; otherwise, the spiritual energy would leak out.
If he caused a stir while digging up the vein, any powerhouse nearby would easily catch wind of it.
In a hurried span of time, Lan Xiaobu managed to set up two fifth-level formations.
Unfortunately, he lacked a soil escape talisman; had he had one, he could have descended using it to find the vein.
Now, digging was his only option.
Fortunately, Lan Xiaobu had reached the Golden Core Completion stage, and his divine sense was exceptionally strong.
He pulled out a low-grade spirit tool shovel from his ring, and almost every scoop could dig down one to two meters deep.
With dirt flying from his hands, he burrowed down over two hundred meters in just half a day.
Even without Ancient Path’s company, he could sense the direction from which the spiritual energy flowed.
After digging for another stretch of time, the spirit tool shovel hit something solid.
Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense picked up a wall; as he traced along its side, he discovered a large door.
The area outside the door was still filled with dirt, the blockage looking like it had been there for ages.
Not to mention, the door was surrounded by numerous complex restrictions, all above the fifth level.
Lan Xiaobu easily broke through these restrictions.
Assisted by his spirit tool shovel, he moved closer to the door.
The locked door was protected by a sixth-level formation.
Anyone else would have had to attack it head-on.
However, with abundant spiritual energy still supplying it, breaking through wouldn’t be simple.
For Lan Xiaobu, dropping down a few dozen formation flags allowed him to break the door’s sixth-level protection instantaneously.
As the heavy door opened, an overwhelming flood of spiritual energy rushed over him.
He quickly reestablished the sixth-level protective formation over the door and even added another spirit concealment formation.
If that spiritual energy leaked out, it could easily draw the attention of Earth Immortals, and then he would be doomed.
Upon entering the door was a small courtyard of merely several dozen square feet.
Lan Xiaobu and Ancient Path immediately discovered a few words inscribed there: the family shrine of the Shangguan family.
Lan Xiaobu froze for a second, astonished that this was the place where the Shangguan family honored their ancestors?
Stepping into the shrine, he was met with a grand hall.
To his surprise, there weren’t individual ancestral tablets but rows of seats arranged neatly on either side, clearly indicating this place functioned as a meeting hall instead.
Not bothering about whether it was a shrine or a hall, Lan Xiaobu focused his gaze to the right, where he could feel the spiritual energy spilling out.
Ancient Path had already dashed ahead, but a restriction blocked its path, leaving it anxiously spinning around.
Lan Xiaobu retrieved a flag, and within just a few minutes, a small door appeared on the right side.
This led to a winding path, but as they reached the end, yet another restriction blocked their way.
Lan Xiaobu dispelled the restriction and, before he could step in, was instantly stunned.
Before him lay a vast orchard, where two spirit veins lined either side.
The spiritual energy from these veins was intoxicating in its richness.
The vein on the left measured at least a hundred feet and, even though Lan Xiaobu had never seen a superior spirit vein, he instinctively knew this was one.
The right vein, slightly shorter at around thirty feet, clearly wasn’t as potent and was obviously a medium-grade vein.
What shocked Lan Xiaobu the most was the line of Spirit Gathering Fruit trees sprawled between these two veins.
These were exactly the fruits he had sought so desperately.
Back then, when he went to the Starless Sea to seek just one Spirit Gathering Fruit, he almost lost his life but came back empty-handed.
Yet here lay over a thousand of them; he couldn’t possibly take them all.
Seeing this scene, Lan Xiaobu finally understood why Little Longevity Mountain was so famous for Spirit Gathering Fruits.
If he were to take all these fruits outside, it would surely cause a stir.
Ancient Path was ecstatic, running back and forth between the two spirit veins, unsure of what to do next.
Lan Xiaobu felt equally troubled; there was simply too much good stuff.
He realized he had no way to carry it all.
His ring’s space was only a dozen feet, with Lan Ya and Kunlun taking up most of that.
Especially Lan Ya, who nearly filled the entire space.
Let alone that superior spirit vein, even the medium-grade vein was beyond his grasp.
Unless he shattered the veins into fragments—yet even if he did that, his ring wouldn’t be able to hold it.
Spirit veins were called spirit veins precisely because they had a complete set of rules.
If he shattered the spirit veins entirely, could they even be considered spirit veins anymore? Even if they were, they wouldn’t be whole.
After pondering for a long while without a good plan, Lan Xiaobu spoke to Ancient Path, "Ancient Path, go ahead and cultivate. I’ll refine the Spirit Gathering Pill and prepare to step into the Pill Transformation stage."
No matter if he could take anything with him, he aimed to use this location's spirit veins and Spirit Gathering Fruits to elevate his cultivation to the Pill Transformation stage.
He had remained stuck in the Golden Core stage for far too long.
Once he broke into the Pill Transformation stage, he could stay here and cultivate for some time.
The Spirit Gathering Pill was a fifth-level spiritual pill, and Lan Xiaobu had plenty of auxiliary spiritual herbs on hand.
After an hour, he had already amassed seven to eight bottles of premium Spirit Gathering Pills.
With the aid of the Universal Dimension Matrix, not refining premium-level pills would feel like a waste.
(End of Chapter)