Chapter 38: Dark Night Grass

  This feeling was not unfamiliar to Li Muran.

  "This feeling used to only appear at night, but now it's just past noon and still daytime, why is this happening?" Li Muran was surprised and quietly closed his eyes, sensing the ancestral aperture divine light.

  Indeed, in his ancestral aperture of divine light, stars and moons were vying for brilliance, with rays of light flashing, completely a night scene.

  Li Muran was in a state of uncertainty when, following the crowd for dozens of feet, Zixia Daoist suddenly stopped and turned around, saying: "We're here!"

  "This is the underground tomb city? It's pitch black and can't see anything!" Mu Li muttered, and several other disciples had similar thoughts.

  "Let the master broaden your horizons!" Zixia Dao Ren smiled slightly, then used her internal energy technique. Her right thumb and index finger were clasped together, and immediately stretched out to flick.

  With a "whoosh", a white light shot out from the tip of Zixia Dao's finger, flying rapidly upwards and leaving behind an arc-shaped trail. After reaching dozens of feet high, it suddenly burst open with a loud "bang" and transformed into dazzling rays of light that instantly illuminated the surroundings.

  Under the illumination of this light, all the scenes within a certain range are reflected in the eyes. It can be seen that here is a valley with towering boulders, the "sky" is over 100 meters high, and it is a layer of thick earth and stone walls. Some straight mountain peaks "rise into the sky", bordering on the sky, as if they were giant pillars supporting this space.

  Zixia Daoist said, "The width of this place is unknown to anyone, but only the area within tens of miles from the entrance has been carefully explored, and many treasures have been found. The other places' treasures are waiting for you to search carefully."

  Taking advantage of the radiant time, the disciples looked around in all directions, but the radiance only lasted for a dozen breaths before gradually fading away.

  "Once you leave this valley, it will be even more vast, you wait and see!" Zi Xia Dao Ren said, taking out a fist-sized night pearl and tossing it into the air, infusing it with a stream of magical energy.

  The Night Pearl suddenly emitted a bright glow and floated just above the Purple Mist Path person, several zhang high, illuminating an area of about 100 zhang in diameter.

  It's not convenient to fly here, so Zixia Daoist walked quickly forward, followed closely by Li Muran and other disciples. Yemingzhu floated in the air, moving along with Zixia Daoist as he advanced.

  "This is the art of astral projection, not only can it control objects remotely, but also transmit magical powers to manipulate them!" Li Muran couldn't help but take a few more glances at the Night Pearl.

  After the master and his disciples left, it wasn't long before the disciples of Danxin Sect also arrived one after another. They divided into several teams and ventured deeper into the underground tomb city.

  Li Muran walked in the middle of the team, checking the surroundings while constantly trying to mobilize the yuanqi inside his body - the flow of yuanqi was very smooth, and he could cast a spell with just a flick of his finger, just like the situation at night.

  "It seems that this underground tomb city doesn't see the daylight, and the environment is similar to nighttime, so my magical powers, divine light and other states are all as if it were nighttime." Li Muran thought to himself.

  After walking for a while in the underground tomb city, Li Muran didn't feel anything out of place and finally felt at ease.

  "This is great news! With this, I'll be even more powerful in the underground tomb city!" Li Muran thought excitedly, "I just don't know if Night Concealment and Moon Devouring can be used here, there are too many people around, it's not convenient. I'll find an opportunity to try them out."

  Zixia Daoist led his disciples to quickly walk out of the valley, in front of them was a very vast plain, with a distant view of a black patch that seemed endless.

  Zi Xia Dao Ren's footsteps paused, he looked around in a circle, and suddenly his expression changed slightly, his eyes also focusing on a strange rock formation in the distance.

  At this moment, a young man's voice suddenly came from behind a huge rock: "Master uncle, master uncle!"

  Right behind, a Qi Mai mid-term disciple wearing a Yuan symbol Taoist robe rushed to the front of the crowd and bowed to Zixia Dao Ren: "I am a disciple of Chi Xia Guan, greetings to Master Zixia!"

  Li Muran was taken aback when he saw this person, and the young man happened to recognize him as Mo Shixiong, who had taken over the Cangshu Pavilion from his hands.

  "Red Cloud Master has already gone ahead of you by a step, why are you still here?" asked Purple Cloud Dao Ren with a frown.

  "The disciple was careless and got lost, hiding behind a rock. Only when he saw his master's brother did he dare to come out. The disciple is willing to follow Master Purple Cloud to search for treasure, please accept me!" The young man with the surname Mo kowtowed, knocking his head repeatedly on the ground in front of Zixia Daoist.

  Zi Xia Dao Ren did not answer, but instead looked at Qing Feng Zi with a glance.

  Qingfengzi said: "The disciple recognizes this Mo Shidi, he is indeed a disciple of the Red Mist Temple."

  Zixia Daoist nodded and said, "Since we are all from the same sect, then you're not an outsider. You can follow us. However, Master has a prior agreement: the treasure you found must be divided in half with Master. Of course, your share of the reward will also be given to you by Master!"

  "Yes! Thank you, Master Uncle! Thank you, Qingfeng Master Brother!" The young man with the surname Mo was overjoyed and walked happily into the crowd. As he passed by Li Muran's side, he also smiled at him in a friendly manner: "Zhao Master Brother, we meet again!"

  "Long time no see, Master Mo!" Li Muran responded with a calm expression, but in his heart, he sneered: "It's inevitable, how can you avoid it all?"

  Zi Xia Dao Ren took out the Fei Feng Fu Luan and said, "Let's go! This place is too close to the entrance, all the treasures have been swept away. I'll take you directly to the depths!"

  All the disciples responded in unison, including the young man with the surname Mo. They stepped onto the flying phoenix and, under the control of Zixia Dao Ren, flew towards the depths of the underground tomb city, which was pitch black.

  Zi Xia Dao Ren intentionally manipulated the flying phoenix to fly slowly close to the ground, while using the night pearl to illuminate the surroundings. He stood on the head of the flying phoenix, carefully examining the environment along the way.

  Suddenly, Zixia Dao Ren's foot tapped lightly on the ground, and Fei Feng immediately stopped in its tracks.

  Zixia Daoist floated down from the Flying Phoenix and said to the disciples: "All of you come over and take a look!"

  The disciples heard the words and rushed to surround their master, only to see that where their master pointed was a small black grass about a foot high. The leaves of this little grass emitted a faint phosphorescence under the illumination of the night pearl.

  "Look at this little grass," said Zixia Dao Ren, pointing to the small herb. "This is Dark Night Grass, a spiritual herb that can be used in alchemy, and it's extremely valuable. It thrives in shade, and it's rarely seen elsewhere, but we've found quite a few of them here in this underground tomb city - one of your main objectives for this trip. This grass only grows a new leaf every hundred years, so the more leaves it has, the older and more valuable it is! This particular Dark Night Grass has three leaves, which means it's already 300 years old, and you won't find anything like it in the entire Kuanglu Mountain Range!"

  Zixia Daoist was patiently instructing his disciple while carefully digging up the grass with its roots intact, placing it in a wooden box and then putting it into a storage bag.

  "Let's keep going!" Zi Xia Dao Ren led a group of disciples flying deeper.

  Along the way, he discovered several treasures one after another and explained them to his disciples. In addition to the Dark Night Grass, there were also a few spiritual herbs and special minerals that were unique to this dark environment, all of which had extraordinary uses and were extremely rare in other places.

  In the underground tomb city, there was no sun or moon, and naturally, day and night were not distinguished. Flying slowly like this, after a good several hours, Zixia Daoist brought his disciples to a stretch of small hills.

  Zi Xia Dao Ren stretched out his finger and shot a white light into the air, which exploded in mid-air, forming a dazzling glow that lasted for over a dozen breaths. The glow illuminated the surrounding area of several miles, and even farther away, vague shapes could be seen.

  Zixia Daoren glanced around with the light, nodded in satisfaction and said: "After we arrived here, we found several treasures in a row, which can prove that this small mountain has not been visited by other cultivators."

  "You all disperse and search for treasures in these small hills. I'll be nearby, keeping watch. If you encounter any danger or find an unknown treasure, use this object to contact me!" Zixia Dao Ren said, handing each disciple a small, four-sided jade token about the size of an inch.

  Li Muran took over the jade plate and found that there were some small mysterious symbols engraved on it. Suddenly, his spirit was lifted:

  "It's a Jade Talisman! A talisman made from spiritual jade, engraved with talismanic characters, and formed into a talisman. Hmm, for a high-ranking cultivator like Master, it's actually a commonly used method!"

  Although Yu Fu is also a kind of talisman, the material of Ling Yu is usually hard and can only be engraved with special tools, so it is more difficult to engrave the talisman than to draw the talisman on the paper with a brush. Therefore, few disciples in the Qi Mai period can make Yu Fu.

  Upon closer inspection, Li Muran roughly understood the origin of these symbols.

  Indeed, Zi Xia Dao Ren said: "This is a transmission symbol, which can transmit sound and other information within a certain distance. It's also very simple to use, just need to inject spiritual power to unlock the seal. If you find that the transmission symbol's yuanqi is insufficient, you can also use the yuanqi symbol to supplement the yuanqi. Using this symbol is not much different from using other symbols and talismans."

  "Some of these transmission tokens, you can seek help from the master at any time. If the master has an order, he can also contact you through this token, so don't worry!" Zi Xia Dao Ren said with a smile.

  "Thank you, Master!" The disciples received the transmission talismans and thanked Liang Sheng in unison.

  Zixia Daoist looked at the young man with the surname Mo and also gave him a transmission token, saying: "You take one too, although you are not a disciple of Zixia Temple, but you are also a member of our sect. If you encounter danger, I, your master's uncle, will also lend a hand to help!"

  "Thank you, Master!" The young man with the surname Mo was overjoyed as he received the transmission token, bowing repeatedly in gratitude.

  "Alright, you can now split up to search for treasure!" Zi Xia Dao Ren announced in a loud voice, then paused and with a serious expression warned: "Your master reminds you that the treasures found in this underground tomb city all have a special dark energy. Even if you put them in your storage bag, the sect has ways to directly sense it out. So don't think about secretly hiding treasures, lest you receive severe punishment from the sect!"