kvmb Chapter 160 Harvest Inside the Cave
Chapter 160 Harvest Inside the Cave
After a single sword strike, the serpent's head was blasted to pieces, and the Ascension Fruit Tree was also reduced to dust.
However, the roots of that Shengyuan fruit tree are still there. Perhaps many years later, a brand new Shengyuan fruit tree will appear here, but that's none of his business.
The fish and trees were baits he laid for the demonic python, and the effect was surprisingly good. Judging from its size, the demonic python had probably already entered the late stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, but it still had to die in the face of the six waves that bloomed in its mouth.
As he entered the cave following the body of the demonic python, a white aura, more solid and robust than any Kun Yuan Qi he had ever seen before, emerged from the python's massive remains. Shen Xu activated the jade tablet to store that aura within it.
Since it was late at night, even the entrance to the cave was pitch black. However, Shen Xu was prepared for this situation. He took out a small Yuan Lamp from his backpack and channeled his Yuan Qi into it.
The small lamp immediately emitted a faint yellow light, which, although not covering a large area, was enough for him.
The mist led the way, and Shen Xu, maintaining the light of the Yuan Lamp, carefully observed the surrounding scenery. Although it was a monster's cave, the demonic python seemed to be quite clean.
There was almost no debris piled up inside the cave; even gravel and dust were rare. The surrounding stone walls seemed to have become extremely smooth from the constant friction of the serpent over the years.
If he were to fight the serpent inside the cave, these smooth stone walls would likely provide the serpent with a significant boost in strength.
He was also glad that he did not choose to fight the demonic python inside the cave, because although the cave seemed solid, he still found many deep cracks inside. If it were to be impacted by the six waves, the cave would most likely collapse and send him back to the Heavenly Sword Plaza.
However, if he didn't unleash the Sixfold Wave, he would lose his last resort to contend with a Qi Condensation Realm demon beast, and in the end, the demonic python would send him back to Heavenly Sword Plaza. Therefore, Shen Xu was quite satisfied with the current outcome.
Continuing forward, just as he had sensed when he first explored using the mist, the cave was very deep, and after being modified by the demonic python, he couldn't tell whether it was man-made or naturally formed.
But with the fog around him, he wasn't afraid of any creatures suddenly appearing to attack him. Moreover, with a tyrant like the demon python in this cave, probably no other demon beast would dare to be its neighbor, unless there were two demon pythons in there, one male and one female.
"Holy crap! No way!" Shen Xu's heart skipped a beat.
In the vast stone chamber at the end of the cave, a huge snake nest made of countless dry branches appeared before Shen Xu's eyes. What frightened Shen Xu was not the size of the snake nest, but the group of young demon pythons, one or two meters long and as thick as fists, inside.
At this moment, they are tightly intertwined and seem to be fast asleep.
At this moment, Shen Xu wanted to slap himself for his bad luck. Although he didn't know whether the one he killed was male or female, the other demonic python wouldn't stay outside for long, so he had to speed up.
"It's up to your own luck. If you insist on stopping me, then there's nothing I can do!" Shen Xu used the mist to conceal his figure and set up a simple illusion around the five young demon pythons before starting to search for useful things in the snake nest.
The serpents piled everything they had collected in a corner of their nest, most of which were materials such as jade, scales, and bones.
Among them was a dusty longsword and a pale, elegant jade hairpin for women, carved with exquisite cloud patterns and auspicious beast motifs, giving it an otherworldly appearance.
"Ascending Yuan Fruit!" Shen Xu was pleasantly surprised to find ten red fruits with yellow patterns inside a cyan jade box.
This fruit can temporarily enhance the strength of the vital energy in the meridians, which greatly helps in breaking through the meridians. With these fruits, he can almost steadily break through to the tenth level of Qi cultivation.
However, he did not expect that the demon python also knew that storing the fruit in the jade box could minimize the evaporation of the medicinal properties of the spiritual fruit. Who taught them this?
"This is!" Shen Xu was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
"A storage ring!!" He suppressed his excitement and picked up the ring.
A wisp of vital energy was injected into the ring, and since the ring's owner was already dead, his energy easily broke through the ring's restrictions. He sensed that there were still many things stored in the ten-foot square space inside the ring, but now was definitely not the time to take them out and examine them.
Looking once more at the items the demonic python had collected over the years, Shen Xu revealed a devilish smile.
Before leaving, Shen Xu removed the illusion spell he had cast on the five young demonic pythons, and thought to himself, "Considering how obedient you've been, consider these things as your life-saving money!"
Upon reaching the cave entrance, Shen Xu felt that the python's corpse should not be wasted. After extracting its gall bladder, he pushed it into the lake below the cliff. What was taken from the lake should be returned to the lake in the end, thus completing a full cycle of life.
Just as the python's corpse was completely swallowed by the lake water, a huge black shadow beneath the lake's surface swallowed the entire python whole and then slowly disappeared into the lake.
Shen Xu watched this scene in shock. He didn't understand why the huge black shadow under the lake hadn't been cleared out by the Four Directions Sword Alliance. It seemed to be ridiculously strong. Could it be the final enemy that the Four Directions Sword Alliance had prepared for them?
But he couldn't stay here any longer. The other serpent might return at any time, and it wasn't realistic to go find the Blue-snout Crocodile at this time. Looking at the not-so-high cliff above him, Shen Xu began to climb up little by little with the help of the moonlight.
When he returned to Kunyuan Palace following the route he remembered, the sky was already beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.
Although he hadn't rested all day, Shen Xu was still in high spirits because he had obtained what he had always dreamed of: a storage ring that was ten feet square!
The thought that he already possessed a storage ring that belonged only to him while he was only at the Qi Nourishing Realm filled Shen Xu with excitement that he could not calm down for a long time, and the expression of the evil spirit on the mask became more and more ferocious.
After calming down, Shen Xu began to take out all the items from his storage ring one by one and arrange them in categories on the stone slab square in front of the Kunyuan Hall.
As one valuable item after another that he had obtained in the snake's nest was placed before him, the corners of Shen Xu's mouth never left his face behind his mask.
Shen Xu finally understood. It must have been that the ancestor of the demon python killed a female cultivator who wanted to use the jade box to pick the Ascension Fruit, and then collected her belongings into the snake's nest.
The long sword, the jade hairpin, and the storage ring on his hand should all belong to that female cultivator. He also learned to use the jade box to store the Ascension Fruit from the demon python, and it was passed down from generation to generation.
Unfortunately, most of the original contents of the storage ring turned to dust the moment he took it out, leaving only a few empty jade boxes, the contents of which had all vanished.
As he continued to clean out the items from the ring, the inside of the ring became empty again. Apart from a few jade boxes, there was also a piece of gold paper that had not weathered over time.
But the gold paper was just a piece of gold paper with nothing on it. Shen Xu tried many methods, including but not limited to injecting vital energy, blood recognition, burning water droplets... but the gold paper remained unchanged.
But he also believes that what can withstand the test of time must be real gold, and that the gold paper is definitely not as simple as it looks; he just hasn't found the right way to use it yet.
Although the longsword had lost much of its spiritual essence, its sharpness still qualified it as a treasure, and he planned to leave it to Wu Shang. As for the jade hairpin, he couldn't figure out what it was for yet, so he simply put it into his storage ring.
However, he was already flattered by the mere acquisition of a storage ring, not to mention the various materials that the demon python had collected over the years.