Chapter 246

Chapter 246: Young Master Xu Emerges~

More and more spiritual energy flowed into Ming’s and Xuenuo’s bodies.

Fifteen Upper Five Realms cultivators transmitting their spiritual energy could explode a Nascent Soul Stage practitioner into a bloody mist, let alone Ming and Xuenuo, who were both Middle Five Realms practitioners.

But in the next moment, all this spiritual energy began to split apart, seeking common ground.

The fifteen spells Ming and Xuenuo had learned acted like fifteen rooms, slowly storing away the spiritual energy.

“Cavern Realm contains within it a cavern, holding ten thousand Daoic truths.”

Ming wasn’t unfamiliar with the Cavern Realm before, but most of his attention was drawn to things like “the Cavern Realm is the first great hurdle for cultivators” or “the Cavern Realm is the dividing line between Immortal Practitioners and mortals.”

This time, Ming felt he truly understood other aspects of the Cavern Realm. When a cultivator enters the Cavern Realm, the inner sacred land within their body opens up, with forty-nine acupoints transforming into forty-nine caverns used to contain spiritual energy.

At this point, the degree to which Cavern Realm cultivators can store spiritual energy vastly surpasses that of Furnace Foundation Realm cultivators.

Therefore, Cavern Realm cultivators can abstain from food, using spiritual energy to nourish themselves without needing to eat again.

That was the difference.

Who would have thought that the caverns of the Cavern Realm could also serve such purposes?

These fifteen spells acted like lights, guiding the spiritual energy from the other fifteen cultivators to continuously gather into their respective caverns.

And when these caverns were filled with spiritual energy, the old man’s Sword Qi compressed this spiritual energy even further, allowing more spiritual energy to flow in.

It was like filling a room with cotton, then compressing the cotton so more could be stuffed inside.

This was why they had taught them these spells.

It wasn’t out of kindness, nor was it as payment.

Their spells were just the bait! And the sword technique the old man had them learn was to unlock his chains. After the chains were unlocked, the elder could use his own Sword Qi to slightly free some of the seals on the other fourteen prisoners, at least allowing them to transmit spiritual energy to him.

Everything had to be done step by step; not a single step could be skipped.

After two incense sticks’ worth of time, the Sword Qi swords embedded in Ming’s and Xuenuo’s bodies completely dissipated, as did those in the others.

Including the elder, all fifteen were drenched in sweat, their faces pale.

They had transmitted as much spiritual energy as possible to Ming and Xuenuo, possibly even overextending their life essence until Ming’s and Xuenuo’s internal spiritual energy caverns couldn’t hold any more.

Ming and Xuenuo knelt on one knee, drenched in sweat, gasping for breath like someone who’d just surfaced from drowning in the sea.

The two inspected their fifteen caverns through their divine senses.

They had a feeling that if they released all the spiritual energy contained within these fifteen caverns, their realms might reach the Upper Five Realms in a short period of time!

“That will do.”

The elder grinned, looking amused at Ming and Xuenuo.

“Now, we’ve already transmitted enough spiritual energy into your bodies. When you release it all, you should be able to enter the Jade Pudding Realm, lasting for an hour.

What you need to do is simple: seize the Heavenly Profound Mirror during the Purple Mist Grand Ceremony and smash it against Three Stone Peak.

If you succeed, our contract will be complete. Afterward, you don’t have to do anything, and our lives are none of your concern.

But if you fail, according to the oath, you’ll die a violent death.”

Xuenuo frowned. “If Ming and I release the spiritual energy in our caverns now, entering the Jade Pudding Realm, could we kill Xia He outside the cave?” After all, Xia He was the instigator. If Xia He died, wouldn’t their chances of escape increase? “Hmph.”

The elder chuckled coldly.

“Do you two really think it’s that easy to kill a perfected Xiānrén Jìng practitioner? Not to mention the guy has a divine weapon.

Even though my hands can move freely now, my spiritual energy is still heavily sealed, each acupoint locked down. It’s difficult for me to cast even a single spell.

How do you plan to kill him?

Rather than trying to kill the Sect Leader of Heavenly Profound Gate, it’s better to wait until the Purple Mist Grand Ceremony. This Sect Leader will definitely stir up trouble then. When Heavenly Profound Gate falls into chaos, your chances of seizing the Heavenly Profound Mirror and smashing it against Three Stone Peak will be much greater.”

“Alright, alright, you two kids, leave here,” Xuang waved dismissively.

Ming bowed respectfully. “Elder, how should we leave?”

Xuang smiled. “Just retrace your steps.”

Outside the cave, Xia He was still pondering how to break through this wall of Sword Qi.

But right at that moment, Xia He’s wall of Sword Qi suddenly collapsed, kicking up countless dirt and stones that swept toward Xia He.

When Xia He’s vision was obscured, two blurry figures darted past him at incredible speed! Xia He realized something was wrong and tried to chase after them, but the elder formed from Sword Qi once again blocked his path.

Ming and Xuenuo kept rushing forward, using entirely the footwork passed down to them by the thief – Star Cloud Step.

Ming and Xuenuo easily weaved through the Monster Beasts.

Before these beasts could react, the two had vanished.

The Star Cloud Step was the signature technique of the “thief,” having stolen countless treasures, leading to a massive manhunt by various sects.

However, Ming was quite puzzled.

A Jade Pudding Realm “thief” using techniques ranked among the top in the world…

In theory, no one should be able to stop him if he wanted to leave.

So how did he end up trapped here?

In merely the time it took for one incense stick to burn, Ming and Xuenuo had flown out of the cave and reached the ground of Three Stone Peak.

“Thank you for your assistance this time, young lady.” Ming bowed respectfully to Xuenuo.

“Just mutual help.” Xuenuo replied coldly, “I’m going back. It’s not wise to stay here long. You should leave quickly too.”

“Of course.” Ming nodded.

Xuenuo said nothing more and swiftly departed from Three Stone Peak, guided by her Life-Bonded Flying Sword.

Ming didn’t leave in the same direction as her but retraced his original path, leaving Three Stone Peak the way he came.

Just as Ming exited the small path out of Three Stone Peak,

A barefoot woman in a black dress, with crescent-shaped eyes, looked at him with a smile:

“Young Master Xu has emerged~ How do you feel?”