Hanshui Gudong San Xiang Qiu Shou Cang

  Nor did he know how long he had walked, in the pitch-black cave, without any light, Li Ke felt as if he was about to finish his long and winding road of life.

  Sigh——

  Suddenly, a warm and gentle breeze blew by, and Li Ke instantly felt his spirit shaken, his mood suddenly cleared up, his eyes lit up, and on his right hand, a red flying knife appeared quietly, only in the darkness, unable to see the cold blade.

  Li Ke accelerated his pace, secretly mobilizing the power of the divine soldiers.

  Hoo-hoo——

  The speed suddenly increased, and the gentle breeze coming from the front became even more scorching. In an instant, a fierce gust of wind came raging in, its temperature extremely high and its speed very fast. Fortunately, Li Ke had sensed it beforehand and made preparations, otherwise this one blast would have burned off half his skin, if not killed him outright.

  "An ancient mountain peak, indeed a land of extremes!"

  At this time, Li Ke finally understood that in the pitch-black cave, without any warning, the sudden cold and hot winds could be fatal if a high-ranking cultivator of the Borderless Path was not careful.

  A scorching gust of wind swept over, and suddenly Li Ke's eyes cleared up.

  In front of him, a vast space, about 7 or 8 meters high and tens of meters wide, in the center of the space, a blue spring water, gushing out, shining with a blue halo, illuminating this place.

  "Here... is actually another world!"

  Li Ke was shocked beyond measure, he had never thought that in the ancient mountain peaks, there would be such a paradise.

  Suddenly——

  The blue spring water, facing the sky, suddenly burst out, shining with a bright blue light. In the blink of an eye, a fierce gust of cold wind rose from the spring's mouth and rolled out towards the path in anger.

  "So it was like that!"

  Fortunately, Li Ke had already had a strange feeling and secretly prepared for it. He quickly activated the power of the divine soldier, dispelling as much of the cold wind as he could.

  He opened his eyes wide and watched this scene, and suddenly he understood in his heart.

  This place is like a legendary paradise, with blue spring water surging and splashing, amidst which bursts out a cold and fierce gale that not only freezes the heart and lungs but also brings forth a thick and intense aura of divine soldiers.

  If he cultivates in such an environment, Li Ke believes that the speed of tempering his military soul will definitely be very fast.

  "What is this blue spring water?"

  At the same time, Li Ke also became curious, the blue spring water was extremely cold, flashing blue light, and between the gushing, furious winds were raging, very mysterious.

  "I've never seen it in any book either!"

  Li Ke, when he was reading the "One Product Divine Soldier Ancient Clan's Dominating Sword" of the Li family, had read through all the books, especially those about mountains and seas, monsters and strange things. He loved them so much that he couldn't put them down, but he had never seen any introduction to this blue spring water in any book.

  "How strange! Very strange!"

  Li Ke mobilized the power of Shen Bing, step by step walking towards the blue spring eye.

  In the center of the cave, there was a blue spring eye, only about one meter in size. The blue halo was emitted from the spring eye. It might be because it had just sprayed water once before, so now, on the spring eye, only a few points of blue spring water were gushing out.

  Li Ke slowly approached the blue spring, his footsteps cautious and careful. The red flying dagger in his hand, under the blue halo, looked very eerie.

  As he got closer, Li could see clearly into the blue spring eye.

  The gurgling spring water flowed gently, and in the depths of the spring, a dark tide churned, as if brewing for another eruption. Through the spring water, Li Ke saw several blue crystals at the bottom of the spring.

  "It's Ling Stone!"

  When he saw the blue crystal, Li Ke was slightly stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed. On the continent of Shenbing, warriors cultivate by absorbing the aura of Shenbing to temper their martial souls. The aura of Shenbing is everywhere, but in some special places, the concentrated aura of Shenbing will condense into crystals, which are called Ling stones.

  The functions of Ling Shi are many, if used for direct cultivation, it can increase the speed of cultivation; it can also be arranged into an array, just like the Double Blade Sect's Gathering Qi Array, which is made by arranging Ling Shi. Cultivating in the Gathering Qi Array made of Ling Shi will greatly increase the speed of cultivation, several times faster than cultivating outside.

  On the continent of Shenbing, Ling stones are extremely rare, so their prices are exorbitant. The value of one Ling stone is roughly equivalent to half a year's income of a sect, worth 500,000 taels of white silver. Therefore, the Gathering Array in the Double Blade Sect's Martial Law Pavilion is only used by disciples who need to break through, in order to conserve the divine martial energy stored within the Ling stones and save silver.

  Li Ke took a look at the past, in the spring eye, there were no less than ten blue crystals, crystal clear and very beautiful.

  "Ten pieces of Ling Stone are almost equivalent to five million taels of white silver!"

  Li Ke was shocked, 50 million taels of white silver, this is the total income of a sect for five whole years.

  "What a cold spring ancient cave, what a mysterious spring eye!"

  Li Ke was overjoyed. Five hundred million taels of white silver is a staggering amount, enough for him to buy ten top-grade human-grade swords, an absolute fortune.

  "With these five million taels of white silver, we can purchase a large quantity of elixirs and military strategies!" As for the flying knife's military strategy, it was extremely rare in this region of Hansheng, but that didn't mean it didn't exist.

  In the city of Hanshui, there is a large-scale auction house called Ba Fang Hui Guan. Every month, it holds an extremely grand auction where high-level martial arts, skills, body techniques, elixirs, and weapons are all available for purchase as long as one has enough silver coins.

  Li Ke has now arrived at the Cold Spring Mountains, one of his goals is to hunt and kill Metal Beasts, earning enough silver coins to buy several high-level martial arts manuals and physical weapons at the Eight Directions Pavilion's auction.

  Hunting and killing the Metal Beast, gathering spiritual grass, and killing Xu Liang, Jin Guang San Hu, they all brought Li Ke a total of 15 million taels of silver. Adding to that the ten pieces of Spiritual Stones from the Spring Eye, it was almost 65 million taels of silver. Exchanging them for gold tickets would be 650,000 taels of yellow gold. Thinking about such terrifying wealth, Li Ke couldn't help but get excited.

  "Ah!"

  He let out a long, murky breath. Sixty-five thousand taels of gold. This was something that Li Ke had never anticipated before coming to the Cold Spring Mountains, but now, all of this had become a reality.

  "I don't know if there's any danger in the blue spring water!"

  Li Ke quietly calmed down and looked at the ten spirit stones in the blue spring, his heart was somewhat hesitant. The ten spirit stones were not fake, but this mysterious and eerie cold spring made him ponder again.

  "Wealth and honor lie in risk! How can one not take a chance?"

  A glint of sharp light flashed in his eyes, and Li Ke was not one to shy away from a fight. He took a step back, conjured up the flying dagger's spirit, and just as he was about to charge forward, an unexpected situation arose.

  "Pffft!"

  A flame-like air wave suddenly burst out of the blue spring eye, with an extremely high temperature.