Chapter 409: Chapter 255: Cultivation World 45_2
Si Lingle shouted loudly, like an arrow leaving the string, rushing towards the Mo Lin Beast, stabbing its abdomen with a sword. The sword blade easily cut through its abdomen, and blood gushed out like a spring, the Mo Lin Beast letting out a painful wail, its huge body shaking a few times.
Although the Mo Lin Beast was heavily injured, it still struggled desperately, swinging its claws, trying to catch Si Lingle. Si Lingle, relying on agile movements, dodged time and again.
Si Lingle launched a Magnetic Blade Storm, manipulating magnetic fields to gather into sharp magnetic blades, forming a storm that swept over the Mo Lin Beast.
The Mo Lin Beast lost most of its combat power.
Si Lingle seized the opportunity to attack again, and the Mo Lin Beast fell to the ground with a crash, lifeless.
Collecting the corpse of the Mo Lin Beast, Si Lingle continued to gather other High-level Spiritual Plants.
As dusk enveloped the Wind Spirit Mountain Range, Si Lingle noticed an abnormal flow of Spiritual Energy at a cliff—ordinary mountain wind formed a whirlpool here, swirling dead leaves into a faintly visible rune path.
Her fingers lightly touched the rock wall, the gray-blue stone surface suddenly rippled, a restrictive light screen engraved with Star Constellation Totems emerged, precisely the entrance barrier of the Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion.
The light screen floated with eight shadowy representations of Ancient Seal Stone Gates carved with "Open, Rest, Life, Death, Fear, Harm, Obstruct, Scene," each gate flickering with the flow of Spiritual Energy.
"Ancient Cultivator restriction, eight gates rotation, forward leads to life, reverse leads to death"—this required crossing the Qimen Dunjia Formation in a specific sequence. Si Lingle probed with Divine Sense, discovering the pattern of the stone gates’ flickering: the Death Gate remained darkly constant, while the Life Gate emitted a faint light once every three breaths, indicating this as the starting point of the Array Hub.
She noticed that as the mountain wind passed through rock fissures, it formed intermittent rhythms on the stone wall markings. Combining the rhythm in the wind, she deduced the eight gates rotation sequence:
Life Gate (long wind howl) → Rest Gate (echo overlap) → Open Gate (falling stone clatter) → Scene Gate (light spots jumping).
When the order was correct, the stone gate shadows transformed into a tangible passage; if incorrect, it triggered thunderous backlash, the rock wall shooting purple lightning.
Passing through the eight gates, the restriction burst forth—violent Spiritual Energy surged like a tidal wave pounding the meridians, attempting to tear apart Si Lingle’s Dantian.
Si Lingle immediately operated her Cultivation Technique, channeling the invading Spiritual Energy into her Spirit Bone, using the restriction’s power to temper her flesh. The Spiritual Energy within turned from violent to gentle liquid state, ultimately condensing into a strand of True Yuan deep within the Spirit Bone, the restriction dissolved at the sound.
The instant the restriction was broken, the rock wall silently parted.
From the deep passage flowed a clear Spiritual Spring, stairs covered with glowing moss, at the end was a Cultivation Room with a dome full of runes.
On the central stone platform were displayed Jade Scrolls and Magic Artifacts, while the side chamber’s medicinal garden startlingly grew the long-extinct Spiritual Spring Fruit, its fragrance inspiring sudden realization of Divine Soul—proof that Ancient Cultivators protected their legacy with restrictions.
Si Lingle reviewed the displayed Jade Scrolls, recording the cave owner’s Taoist Name as Zizhen, a Talisman Master of the Ten Thousand Talisman Sect from tens of thousands of years ago.
She cultivated to Mahayana Peak but did not find a breakthrough opportunity, before her lifespan ended, she left the sect, seeking a place to await death.
This cave mansion was where she passed away peacefully.
As for the corpse of Zizhen Taoist Monarch, it was cremated by her own talisman formation.
Her Divine Soul dissipated over three thousand years ago.
As for the Ten Thousand Talisman Sect, this sect still exists, though now it’s a small sect.
Though reduced to a small sect, the sect disciples number more than the Hundred Battle Sect, with over three hundred people.
Si Lingle took all the items from the cave mansion, after collecting them, she left the place.
A day later, three cultivators arrived at the place.
Leading was a middle-aged cultivator in a brocade robe, with a stern face and eyes revealing intelligence and ruthlessness. Behind him were two young cultivators, one male and one female; the male was sturdy, with a honest demeanor; the female was sweet-looking, with lively eyes, yet at this moment, the trio’s gaze was firmly locked on the broken restriction.
The three entered the cave mansion, the brocade-robed middle-aged cultivator’s gaze swept over the empty cave, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes: Who! Had cleaned out this cave’s treasures!
Don’t let him be found!
The honest-looking male cultivator spoke: "Brother Zhong, looking at the restriction’s traces, it hasn’t been that long since it was broken, maybe the other party hasn’t left the Wind Spirit Mountain Range, why don’t we track them."
This Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion surely contained many treasures, the visit this time was exactly for treasures.
Now that the treasures have been taken away, how can one be willing.
The female cultivator spoke: "Brother Zhong, the Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion surely had treasures to advance your level, can’t let them be taken by others. We must find them."
