After returning to the small courtyard, Jiang Li began to set up the formation. A layer of sparkling white light that was in a hemisphere enveloped the small courtyard before vanishing without a trace.
Jiang Li reached out to touch it, but he felt a layer of tough wall membrane within the perimeter.
After all, this was originally the courtyard of a Core Formation elder. The grade of the defensive array formation was quite high. Even high-level cultivators would find it difficult to silently penetrate the protective array formation and spy on the inside of the courtyard.
Jiang Li walked into the cultivation room. After opening another layer of array formation barrier, he could not wait to take out the Yin Burial Coffin. He opened the coffin lid and reached his right hand in to continuously search.
He was very interested in the spiritual root seed he had obtained from the red-coated rat.
Because other than Elder Duan Shuang, the other eleven rogue cultivators had already died under the black zombie’s corpse bomb.
Jiang Li had carefully examined the hole before and tried to stuff the waste pills into it, but no other seeds appeared.
It was basically confirmed that if the host died, and the spiritual root seed did not escape in time, it would perish along with the host.
Therefore, if nothing unexpected happened, there was a high chance that the spiritual root seed came from Elder Duan Shuang.
Although he still did not know how to use these two seeds, one had absorbed the essence of a Golden Core cultivator. It was very precious.
He had a Wood attribute spiritual root to begin with. Perhaps he could use some spell technique to safely use the spiritual root seed. Then, wouldn’t he be profiting greatly?
However, he only took out one thing, it was the rat that had been tied up by ropes.
After searching for a long time, Jiang Li actually could not find the spiritual root seed.
Even the spiritual root seed from the Scaled Demon could not be found.
What was going on? Did the two seeds grow wings and fly away?
However, the coffin was a confined space. Even eight pairs of wings could not fly out.
Jiang Li shook his hand and threw the coffin as it expanded rapidly in the air. When it landed, it had already become a normal coffin that was more than two meters long.
Jiang Li casually pushed open the coffin lid. He thought for a moment before moving a table over and throwing it into the coffin. Only then did he jump into the coffin himself.
After the miraculous spatial change, Jiang Li landed on the table that he had thrown in earlier.
The Yin Corpse Blood in the coffin was at least half a meter deep. As it was the black zombie that entered in the past, it was unaffected by this.
Now that his main body had entered, even if he could remove the negative status, Jiang Li did not want to suffer the pain of being corroded by the Yin Corpse Blood for nothing.
Once he entered, Jiang Li discovered that the space inside had changed drastically. Previously, he had only sensed that the space inside had become larger from the outside.
Now, after entering, he realized that the length, width, and height had roughly doubled. In terms of space, it was eight times the original.
If he sold this coffin, Jiang Li estimated that he could use medium-grade spirit stones to create a spirit stone statue the size of a person.
Of course, he would not do such a foolish thing.
No, no. He was here to find a spiritual root seed. What was he thinking?
Jiang Li raised his eyes and looked around. He actually really found the location of the two spiritual root seeds in an instant.
Gasp!
Then, Jiang Li’s heart trembled.
This was because the spiritual seed, which was the size of a durian seed, spun a few times in the air before it was caught by a Ghost Lantern Fish in a splash of water. Then, it was swallowed into its stomach.
Jiang Li was shocked. He had forgotten about this.
The dozen Ghost Lantern Fish had accidentally swam into the coffin during the underwater graveyard incident.
Jiang Li saw that they had a gentle temperament and were tenacious. They were able to survive in the Yin Corpse Blood and could be fed with only ghost flames. They were very obedient when they swam around in the coffin space.
Thus, he kept them in the coffin and used them as sources of illumination.
Previously, the black zombie had been lying in the coffin to watch over them so there was no trouble. He did not expect them to start acting up without the black zombie around. One even ate Jiang Li’s spiritual root seed.
Guh!
Just as Jiang Li took out the chains to teach them a lesson…
The Ghost Lantern Fish that had swallowed the spiritual root seed poked its head out again and actually spat out the seed.
The seed rolled and flew in another direction. Another Ghost Lantern leaped out of the Yin Corpse Blood and caught the seed.
These Ghost Lantern Fish… were playing volleyball??
Sure enough, not long after, the seed was spat into the air again and tossed to the next Ghost Lantern Fish.
From the looks of it, these Ghost Lantern Fish were having a good time.
Jiang Li raised his hand and beckoned. The seed turned in midair and flew towards Jiang Li before being grabbed by him.
As the owner of the coffin, it was relatively simple for Jiang Li to control some things in the coffin space.
When the Ghost Lantern Fish saw that their toy was gone, they leisurely swam to the other side and played with another spiritual root seed with the other Ghost Lantern Fish.
Jiang Li looked at the seed in his hand and then looked at the Ghost Lantern Fish that were playing happily not far away. He was slightly at a loss for words.
It had only been a few seconds since he had held it in his hand, but the desire for it had already begun to grow again. The power of this seed was extremely overwhelming. Even a Golden Core cultivator would not be able to resist it.
Even if the spiritual root seed did not fancy fish, it should be able to emit a smell that would make living creatures fearful like how it dealt with the Maha Fish previously.
However, these extremely ugly fish could actually ignore the influence of the spiritual root seed and pass these two seeds around like toys.
It was true that nothing was invincible, there was always a natural enemy.
“To think that you would end up in this state!” He said to the seed in his hand.
Jiang Li suddenly recalled the scene when the Mother River descended into the graveyard. The entire graveyard was a land of death, and even the Golden Core zombie demon had been reduced to being a puppet of the unknown huge roots.
However, these Ghost Lantern Fish could not be affected at all and lived freely in the underwater graveyard.
Now, they could casually devour the spiritual root seed and were not affected at all.
It seemed that this Ghost Lantern Fish was no ordinary creature. Perhaps the key to solving the secret of the spiritual root seed lay with these ugly Ghost Lantern Fish.
This kind of spiritual fish had been missing for too long. He did not know if the information could be found in the sect’s records.
Jiang Li found an iron box and placed the spiritual root seed inside. After locking it, he placed it at the corner of the coffin.
This thing’s temptation was too strong. If one was not careful, it would be easy to fall for it. Jiang Li used various methods to test it, but he still did not find anything.
However, the desire in his heart was already unbearable. He could only put it aside for the time being and study it after his heart calmed down.
It seemed that the secret treasure hidden within the seed was indeed not so easy to retrieve.
Jiang Li put away the coffin and looked at the red-coated rat whose fur was completely white on the ground.
After thinking about it, he fed it a healing pill and ignored it. He also wanted to see if his body, which had been abandoned by the spiritual root seed, still had a way to live.
He meditated and studied the Heart Sutra for the entire night…
The next day, Jiang Li ran to Elder He’s personal training ground early in the morning.
His new master was not punctual and had not come over yet. There was no one else in this special training ground so it was very quiet.
Jiang Li did not waste any time. After grabbing two rocks that were 500 kilograms in weight to warm up, he looked for a stone wall at the edge of the training grounds and repeatedly practiced the Mountain Crushing Scripture.
In the Scripture Storage Valley, other things were hard to find except for hard stone walls that were everywhere.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The dull thuds continued.
The stone wall here was obviously much tougher than the one Jiang Li had crashed into in the outer sect. Jiang Li collided with it more than ten times, but he had only barely managed to crack a little. On the contrary, his shoulder was already red and swollen.
Compared to the power of the collision, his current body was already unable to keep up. He needed to practice more and make up for it as soon as possible.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, the swelling on his shoulder subsided, and his skin, muscles, and bones were strengthened slightly.
Jiang Li then lowered his shoulders and continued to charge.
About two hours later, when the sun was high in the sky, his master finally arrived.
“Master!” Jiang Li immediately bowed.
However…
Swoosh.
A familiar sound of chains colliding sounded. A pitch-black chain suddenly flew out and wrapped around Jiang Li’s right ankle. The top of the chain was immediately locked, preventing him from breaking free.
Jiang Li raised his eyes to look over. Besides his good master, who else would do this?
“Master… what are you doing?”
Jiang Li felt that something was wrong, because the chains on his feet were still rattling. The other end of the chains was connected to a large iron cage covered in black cloth.
“What? A present for you, of course.” Elder He jumped onto the iron cage, his expression looking rather pleasant as he answered.
Others only knew that the Head Elder of the Demon Vanquishing Hall, Elder He, had invincible iron fists and liked to fight, but what they did not know was that he actually preferred to watch others fight.
Especially bloody hand-to-hand combat.
“Jiang Li, the chain on your foot is called the Dragon Imprisoning Lock. That’s a treasure that was found on the corpse of an ancient dragon. It’s impossible to break!”
“If you can survive, this chain will be your master’s gift to you.”
Obviously, his master was truly unable to forget the chain from before, so he intended to give Jiang Li a good one today.
But… What did he mean by “survive”?
The answer was soon revealed.
The black cloth was pulled away by Elder He, and the iron cage’s door fell. Accompanied by a rough roar, a huge ape more than four meters tall walked out.
Jiang Li could see that the other end of the Dragon Imprisoning Lock was clearly tied to the ape’s left foot.
Roar!
Jiang Li looked at the huge ape with bulging fangs and bloodshot eyes. He swallowed hard. Was his master asking him to fight with this thing?
“Master, is this how you usually teach your disciples?”
Jiang Li wanted to cry but had no tears. His heart was filled with despair. What kind of master had he encountered?
“Don’t worry! Your senior brothers and sisters have all gone through this. This Dragon Imprisoning Lock definitely can’t be broken. I won’t help you either.”
It was no wonder Elder He was late by more than two hours. It turned out that he had gone to capture this thing. He smiled as he comforted Jiang Li, and then he kicked the ape on the butt, causing the ferocious glow in its eyes to rise explosively as it roared and charged towards Jiang Li.