"Could there be some unexpected situation?"
Yu Lingzhou, with her pure and youthful beauty, furrowed her brows slightly and asked with a focused voice. Her powerful divine senses swept lightly over the surrounding millions of miles, but she detected no crisis too challenging to handle.
The Dragon Ritual Princess relayed Qing Muling's estimation once again, then pondered and said, "If this place truly is the private territory of some important figure from the Heavenly Human Clan, then we can only leave immediately, and not disturb even a blade of grass here."
For safety's sake, perhaps even the mining base currently being exploited would have to be abandoned immediately, in favor of selecting a more suitable area.
Yu Lingzhou's expression grew solemn as she looked towards Qing Muling, "Junior Brother, do you think we need to do this?" Qing Muling silently ran his mystical calculations, saw nothing amiss, and shook his head, "Fortune has not sounded the alarm; it can be confirmed that for millions of years, no one else has set foot here. We are the first visitors, and we have absolutely no connection with the Heavenly Human Clan."
"If that's the case, then…"
Yu Lingzhou breathed a sigh of relief, then asked with some curiosity, "If it's not the Heavenly Human Clan or cultivators from other sects, then who could it be? Could there be a third power hidden within the Misty Illusion Secret Realm?"
"It's possible… we can't rule out that possibility, right?"
The Dragon Ritual Princess spoke softly. The true origins of the Misty Illusion Secret Realm were more detailed in certain secret archives of the Dao Court's treasury, including research and analysis by some great powers from ancient times, as well as top-secret information that was only passed down orally among Quasi Holy Emperors, all of which she had heard about.
Since the heyday of the ancient Immortal Dao civilization, there had been rumors that the Misty Illusion Secret Realm was a fragment fallen from the legendary Immortal Realm or some other vast space-time world, hence its many miraculous and inconceivable aspects.
Over the long years, this conjecture had never been confirmed nor refuted by anyone.
Qing Muling nodded, "My intuition tells me that perhaps some of these speculations are not unfounded. If the Misty Illusion Secret Realm was indeed once part of a powerful space-time world, then the emergence of multiple different powers is perfectly normal; they simply disappeared later for some reason."
The knowledgeable and gentle Yueyi Heavenly Lord blinked her bright and beautiful eyes, agreeing, "That should be the case. It is said that the vastness of the Misty Illusion Secret Realm is no less than that of the Great Void, yet so far only the Heavenly Human Clan has been known to exist there, which is obviously a bit odd."
"Therefore, we need to carefully explore here; we might discover something different." Qing Muling said, his intuition seldom wrong, and this time should be no exception.
"Alright, then let's do it together."
Yu Lingzhou agreed, Xuebing Xuan and the others were busy assisting Ice Falcon with miscellaneous affairs and did not come along this time. However, with herself and Yueyi Heavenly Lord present, protecting Qing Muling's safety would not be an issue.
Qing Muling dismounted his steed, manipulated the spirit formula to ride the wind, and soon approached a hundred-meters-tall Dragon Whisker Silver Scale Snow Pine. This extraordinary tree was bathed in dazzling, flowing radiance, shrouded in mist, with a fragrance that hit the nose, carrying an ancient and long-standing aura of vicissitudes, yet also containing an incredible and vigorous life force.
"This… this thing should have reached the level of Heavenly Medicine, right?"
Yueyi Heavenly Lord's mouth opened slightly in surprise, her eyes full of amazement. The Dragon Whisker Silver Scale Snow Pine was also cultivated in the Great Void, its leaves, fruits, bark, and root sap could all be used for concocting medicine and refining pills. However, it grew extremely slowly, taking about twenty thousand years to reach a height of a meters.
In the Main Altar of Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace, the largest Dragon Whisker Silver Scale Snow Pine was only about ten meters tall, which meant it was a divine herb of about two hundred thousand years of growth. The one before them was clearly a Heavenly Medicine of more than two million years, a treasure not even found in the Dao Court's medicinal gardens.
"It's ours now!"
Yu Lingzhou's eyes shone brightly. Although with Qing Muling present, the sect's higher-ups would definitely not lack Heavenly Medicine in the future, no one would ever complain about having too much of such treasures.
Yueyi Heavenly Lord nodded slightly and stepped forward to collect it, but was stopped by Qing Muling, "Sister, wait a moment, let me check again."
As he spoke, he crouched down beside the roots of the Dragon Whisker Silver Scale Snow Pine, observed silently for a few breaths, and had a clear idea in his mind.
Qing Muling gently raised his hand, an invisible force lifted the soil from the tree's roots and moved it aside, revealing the dense and entwined root system beneath.
Sensing something, the Dragon Ritual Princess hurried over to help, digging down more than twenty meters deep, and indeed made a different discovery.
Beneath an exceptionally thick, snow-white tree root, there was an ancient, shimmering talisman embedded. The talisman, the size of a fingernail, had densely packed, fine light-quality runes on its surface, emitting obscure magical fluctuations.
It had completely integrated with the divine herb, maintaining its efficacy by drawing on the life force of the herb itself and the spiritual energy from the earth vein. In theory, it could last for hundreds of millions of years without losing its effect.
"There really is such a thing,"
Yu Lingzhou reached out her delicate hand and took the talisman into her hands for a closer look, "Its function should be a spirit-sealing one, but this refining technique… is completely different from any school or power's methods and divine abilities in the Great Void, nor does it resemble the Heavenly Human Clan's methods. So, it must come from some ancient Dao Lineage power that has long since disappeared?"
"That must be it!"
Qing Muling exhaled lightly. The Misty Illusion Secret Realm was already full of hidden secrets and wonders, and one more thing didn't seem all that surprising.
As for the real reason for the disappearance of this Dao Lineage power, that was a bit more difficult to say. It could have been destroyed by the Heavenly Human Clan, or perished in a war with other powers, or perhaps due to some other irresistible force.
In any case, from the remote and unverifiable ancient times to the present, there have been too many Dao Lineage powers, great beings, and immortal sanctuaries that have vanished in the river of time. Even Quasi Holy Emperors couldn't ensure their own immortality and everlasting existence, let alone others?
After a moment of contemplation, Qing Muling placed his palm on the trunk, his entire body turned into a puff of blue-purple spiritual light and merged into the interior of the Heavenly Medicine, then reappeared beside another Heavenly Medicine hundreds of miles away, and disappeared again.
Innate Five Elements Wood Escape.
In just a few breaths, Qing Muling had made a round trip within a ten-thousand-mile radius, and even Fengxia, at the Xuan Immortal realm, could hardly lock onto his figure. This innate ability, derived from the Harmony Spirit Seed, could not be countered unless one's cultivation realm was far superior.
As Qing Muling expected, near the roots of almost every sacred and divine herb, similar spirit-sealing talismans could be found, and many small spirit-sealing formation arrays were operating underground. Any plant life growing in this area could not escape their influence.
Clearly, this vast blessed land of spirit veins was once the medicinal garden of that ancient Dao Lineage power. Although it had long since perished, these hidden arrangements were still functioning.
"There are quite a few divine and Heavenly Medicines in this area; let's start harvesting and collecting!" Qing Muling said, returning to the ladies. Since it was a Dao Lineage that had already perished, the garden naturally became unclaimed, and there was no reason not to take it.
"Alright."
Yu Lingzhou nodded, sending half of the Supreme Elders to scavenge resources, while the rest remained guarding Qing Muling, never leaving his side.
This was a strict order from Sect Master Mu Yinghua: at any time and under any circumstances, the guard force around Qing Muling must not be less than five hundred Supreme Elders. Any divine being wishing to harm him must step over their corpses to do so.
Qing Muling himself was not idle either. With his current level of discernment, he was somewhat dismissive of sacred medicine resources, only considering collecting new species not found in the Great Void.
Ordinary spatial artifacts could not contain living things, so these entirely new medicinal plants and herbs were stored in Qing Muling's internal space, to be transplanted in a dedicated medicinal garden arranged by Mu Yinghua upon returning to the Main Altar of the Sect.
In a short time, the divine and Heavenly Medicine resources within tens of thousands of miles were completely harvested, and as Yu Lingzhou had already stated, the sacred and divine medicines could be kept, but the Heavenly Medicine resources must be handed over to the sect, which the elders had no objections to.
"Done, let's move on to the next area to scavenge!"
Qing Muling spoke, currently only at the edge of this ancient medicinal garden. The deeper they went, the more Heavenly Medicine resources there were, each plant's value beyond imagination.
Thus, the ladies continued their journey, sweeping through the area. Soon, all the spatial artifacts they carried were filled to the brim, so they began to store them in the phantom space of Qing Muling's Blue Lotus leaf.
After a day and a night, Qing Muling led them deep into millions of miles. As they approached the main spirit vein underground, the surrounding spiritual energy became more abundant, turning into vast white fog that enveloped the wilderness.
The increasingly terrifying tides of spiritual power were almost too much for Kong Yuhuan to bear. After all, she was still at the Elemental Immortal realm, with limited physical strength, and she couldn't use divine abilities beyond the peak of the Ascending to Immortality realm, so it was inevitable that she would suffer. It was only after the Dragon Ritual Princess intervened to protect her that she avoided injury.
As for Qing Muling, it didn't matter. The Harmony Spirit Seed perfectly dissolved and absorbed all pressure, like an endless black hole, ceaselessly devouring and absorbing massive amounts of spiritual essence.
Along the way, the resources of divine and Heavenly Medicines became more and more abundant. Eventually, even Qing Muling's internal space was nearly full, and he had to return temporarily to empty his internal space before continuing to scavenge. "Junior Brother, what is that?"
After passing through a steep and towering cliff, the view suddenly opened up. The Dragon Ritual Princess, who was walking at the forefront, let out a low exclamation of surprise.
In the spacious valley, a large expanse of buildings shimmering with faint spiritual light appeared abruptly, stretching to the end of their sight, stunning all the ladies for a moment.
Despite being abandoned for long years, to the point where most of the buildings had collapsed, one could still imagine their former grandeur and magnificence, comparable to the pivotal locations of the Dao Court.
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