Chapter 00326: Immortal Marrow Vein
# Immortal Marrow Vein
Chapter 326
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 326: Immortal Marrow Vein
"Why do you want to go to the Five Realms Immortal World?" Lan Xiaobu asked.
Hearing this, Shi Qi knew that Lan Xiaobu had already found Yang Cang.
He sighed and said, "Because of the Fate Array Disk. The Fate Array Disk isn’t something just anyone can obtain. I used it to repair my spiritual root aptitude, but to do so, I needed to establish my own Dao foundation. My background is ordinary, so my Dao foundation could only be tied to one realm..."
"You want to refine the Five Realms Immortal World?" Lan Xiaobu sneered.
A mere Immortal Venerable, daring to think about refining the Five Realms Immortal World?
Shi Qi wanted to use the Five Realms Immortal World as his Dao foundation, refining it into something akin to a True Spirit World.
This guy was truly sinister.
Forget about him being an Immortal Venerable—even a deity wouldn’t dare think about refining the Five Realms Immortal World.
"The Five Realms Immortal World, aside from its lower level of rules, is more complete than the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain. I alone can’t refine it, but with the help of the Fate Array Disk, it’s a different story..."
Shi Qi, having nothing left to lose, decided to come clean.
He knew Lan Xiaobu would kill him, and he chose not to suffer the torment of being burned alive.
Hearing this, Lan Xiaobu felt a chill run down his spine.
If someone used something like the Fate Array Disk, it might actually be possible to refine the Five Realms Immortal World.
With the Fate Array Disk suppressing the fate of a realm, the chances of Shi Qi refining the Five Realms Immortal World exceeded thirty percent.
If Shi Qi were to reach the Immortal Emperor realm, that chance would rise to over sixty percent.
Lan Xiaobu didn’t waste any more time talking to Shi Qi.
He immediately threw a ball of fire at him, reducing him to ashes.
Lan Xiaobu only half-believed Shi Qi’s words.
After killing Shi Qi, he had the Cosmic Dimension Matrix construct a model of the Immortal Marrow Pool.
Zhao Gongming had already begun cultivating.
If there was something wrong with the Immortal Marrow Pool, it would be too late to wake Zhao Gongming now.
Besides, after everything Zhao Gongming had been through, he shouldn’t be as careless as Shi Qi.
If there was an issue with the Immortal Marrow Pool, Zhao Gongming, with his strength and shrewdness, would surely handle it better than Shi Qi could.
Lan Xiaobu feared that Zhao Gongming might have already sensed something and was fully focused on resisting the intrusion.
If Lan Xiaobu intervened without understanding the situation, he might end up harming Zhao Gongming instead.
Lan Xiaobu fed the Cosmic Dimension Matrix with seven or eight high-grade immortal spirit veins, but he still felt it wasn’t enough.
He also added some top-grade immortal crystals.
The Cosmic Dimension Matrix’s model of the Immortal Marrow Pool became clearer and clearer.
In just half a day, a detailed model of the pool appeared in Lan Xiaobu’s Sea of Consciousness.
The source of the Immortal Marrow Pool’s energy came from an Immortal Marrow Vein underground.
Lan Xiaobu had seen all kinds of spirit veins, even medicinal veins, but he had never heard of an Immortal Marrow Vein before.
This Immortal Marrow Pool had been implanted with a Collapsing Will—a top-tier mental force, akin to a divine sense imprint.
However, compared to this Collapsing Will, a divine sense imprint was nothing.
Lan Xiaobu was now certain that he had made the right choice not to disturb Zhao Gongming earlier.
Zhao Gongming had already detected the Collapsing Will and was resisting it.
To help Zhao Gongming, Lan Xiaobu needed to eliminate this Collapsing Will.
At his current cultivation level, Lan Xiaobu had no hope of dealing with the Collapsing Will on his own.
However, he had a solution: he would use the Cosmic Dimension Matrix as his guide.
Lan Xiaobu wondered why someone would implant their own Collapsing Will into the Immortal Marrow Pool, causing anyone who cultivated here to have their spiritual roots collapse.
This was clearly a case of harming others without benefiting oneself.
Well, perhaps not entirely without benefit—anyone who cultivated here would have their spiritual roots collapse, so this place could only be used by the one who planted the Collapsing Will.
But the person who could implant such a will into the Immortal Marrow Pool must have a cultivation level far beyond the Immortal Emperor realm.
Would someone like that really care about this Immortal Marrow Pool?
Lan Xiaobu decided to first construct a model for removing the Collapsing Will.
As he instructed the Cosmic Dimension Matrix to build the model, he faintly sensed that Zhao Gongming was struggling to hold on.
This wouldn’t do.
If the Cosmic Dimension Matrix didn’t come up with a solution soon, Zhao Gongming’s spiritual roots would collapse before they could act.
Looking at the thick, rolling mist above the Immortal Marrow Pool, Lan Xiaobu realized that the mist was growing denser, clearly supplied by the Immortal Marrow Vein.
If he were to extract the Immortal Marrow Vein first, would that help Zhao Gongming?
With this thought, Lan Xiaobu pulled out a handful of array flags and tossed them down.
For anyone else, extracting this Immortal Marrow Vein would be like trying to see through fog—not only would they fail to extract it, they wouldn’t even be able to locate it.
But Lan Xiaobu, with the help of the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, had pinpointed the vein.
As a ninth-grade immortal array master, he quickly set up a ninth-grade teleportation array.
With a wave of his hand, the powerful force of the ninth-grade array yanked the Immortal Marrow Vein out of the ground and into his True Spirit World.
The pure, dense immortal spiritual energy made Lan Xiaobu marvel.
This Immortal Marrow Vein was on a completely different level from top-grade immortal spirit veins.
Wherever this thing was placed, it would form an Immortal Marrow Pool.
As the Immortal Marrow Vein was extracted, the surrounding space seemed to lose its foundation, emitting a series of rumbling sounds.
However, with Lan Xiaobu’s defensive arrays in place, the area didn’t collapse.
To Lan Xiaobu’s delight, after extracting the Immortal Marrow Vein, the mist above the Immortal Marrow Pool quickly thinned.
As the mist dissipated, Zhao Gongming’s figure became visible.
Lan Xiaobu knew that extracting the vein had indeed helped Zhao Gongming.
"Hahaha..."
Zhao Gongming laughed heartily, his hands forming countless complex seals.
In the next moment, he sealed away a mark.
"Congratulations, Old Zhao. This Immortal Marrow Pool didn’t harm you—it actually boosted your cultivation by a large margin," Lan Xiaobu said with a smile.
He had been right about Zhao Gongming.
The Immortal Marrow Pool, which had ensnared Shi Qi, had no effect on Zhao Gongming.
Not only had it not harmed him, but it had also restored a significant portion of his cultivation.
Perhaps the person who had planted the Collapsing Will never expected that someone surpassing the Immortal Emperor realm would one day come here.
Of course, Lan Xiaobu’s assistance had been crucial.
"Thank you. If you hadn’t extracted that Immortal Marrow Vein, I wouldn’t have been able to hold on much longer. My cultivation has now recovered to the Immortal Emperor level of this realm—a blessing in disguise. By the way, how did you know about this thing?" Zhao Gongming held up a jade sphere, inside which the Collapsing Will was sealed.
"I asked Shi Qi. I killed him. Give me the Collapsing Will—I have a way to lock its aura," Lan Xiaobu said.
Zhao Gongming didn’t hesitate and handed the Collapsing Will to Lan Xiaobu.
He had personally witnessed Lan Xiaobu’s prowess in array formation.
The person who had planted this Collapsing Will might have a cultivation level even higher than his own.
"Let’s go. I’ve extracted the Immortal Marrow Vein here, so we can move somewhere else to cultivate," Lan Xiaobu said with a grin.
This was truly a case of turning misfortune into fortune.
If they stayed here to cultivate, even though others couldn’t enter, this place was still at the center of an immortal city.
Moreover, there was someone with sinister intentions who had left a Collapsing Will here.
Who could guarantee that person wouldn’t return?
...
Lan Xiaobu and Zhao Gongming didn’t return to the Forbidden Immortal Bureau.
Without the Immortal Marrow Vein, it wouldn’t have mattered, but with it, cultivating in the Forbidden Immortal Bureau would be inconvenient.
Anyone who saw it would covet it.
The two returned to the place where they had cultivated before.
Lan Xiaobu implanted the Immortal Marrow Vein, and under their cultivation, a new Immortal Marrow Pool quickly formed.
Without the interference of the Collapsing Will, Zhao Gongming’s cultivation recovery sped up.
Meanwhile, Lan Xiaobu focused on breaking through to the sixth level of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
Having grown accustomed to using top-tier cultivation resources, Lan Xiaobu found that even with high-grade immortal spirit veins, his cultivation speed wasn’t fast enough.
If he wanted to increase his strength quickly, he needed to improve the quality of the immortal spiritual energy he absorbed.
Lan Xiaobu didn’t dare use the three top-grade immortal spirit veins he had.
Once used, he might not be able to advance further in the future.
The greatest advantage of Immortal Marrow spiritual energy was its purity.
Guided by a top-grade immortal crystal, Lan Xiaobu’s strength soared like a rocket.
Six months later, Lan Xiaobu reached the eighth level of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
A year later, he achieved Great Luo Golden Immortal perfection.
Seeing that Zhao Gongming was still cultivating, Lan Xiaobu decided to leave the Immortal Marrow Pool.
He planned to undergo his tribulation and advance to the Immortal King realm.
Once he became an Immortal King, he would head to the ancient battlefield to find the teleportation array back to the Five Realms Immortal World.
As before, Lan Xiaobu didn’t use any Immortal King pills.
He only needed to make one attempt at breaking through, and before he even touched the threshold of the Immortal King realm, the Immortal King tribulation descended.
This left Lan Xiaobu somewhat frustrated.
For others, the tribulation would only come after they had touched the threshold.
But for him, as soon as he began his breakthrough, the tribulation would arrive.
Surviving it was a blessing; failing meant turning to ash.
The Immortal King tribulation consisted of seven sets of nine thunderbolts.
When the first nine thick arcs of lightning came crashing down, Lan Xiaobu realized something was wrong.
He quickly summoned his Seven-Tone Halberd.
Boom! Boom! Boom! The thunderbolts collided with Lan Xiaobu’s Seven-Tone Halberd, but more of them struck his body.
Just the first wave of lightning left him with broken bones and bloodied flesh.
At this point, swallowing an Immortal King pill and rushing to break through to the Immortal King realm was the best way to survive.
Lan Xiaobu vaguely sensed that if he could break through without using pills, it would be better not to use them.
He would only resort to pills if he absolutely couldn’t hold on.
In fact, up to this point in his cultivation journey, he had rarely used pills when breaking through.
Before the injuries from the first wave of lightning could heal, the second wave of nine thunderbolts came crashing down.
In the distance, Zhao Gongming had stopped cultivating and was now guarding Lan Xiaobu.
Seeing Lan Xiaobu use the Seven-Tone Halberd to block the lightning, Zhao Gongming felt deeply grateful.
Lan Xiaobu had given him the Heaven-Illuminating Seal, which was actually the best tool for blocking tribulation lightning.
However, Zhao Gongming wasn’t worried about Lan Xiaobu.
Although the first wave of lightning had left him battered and bloodied, Zhao Gongming could see that the lightning was greatly benefiting Lan Xiaobu.
There were many cultivators who could absorb lightning energy during tribulation, but Zhao Gongming had never seen anyone absorb eighty to ninety percent of it like Lan Xiaobu.
Suffering some injuries under such lightning would only bring greater benefits.
(That’s all for today’s update.
Goodnight, friends!)
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