Chapter 375: Golden Spiritual Pools
Jiang Yue, Yu Nianzhen and the others ran without looking back.
However, their divine sense was always stretched backwards, making sure to keep a distance of more than one hundred kilometres from the enemy.
"She is slowing down." Jiang Yue suddenly said.
"The poison should be getting to her." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
However, the two didn’t stop running.
They knew that a cornered enemy was the most dangerous and they didn’t dare to take chances with Liu Bai.
As luck had it, they were right.
Just after Liu Bai began to slow down, a ball of light began to fly towards them.
At the same time, a dangerous feeling spread in the surrounding and everyone panicked.
"She is going to explode herself." Someone screamed.
However, no one needed to be told.
They had all survived the past six years and had encountered hundreds of explosions.
At this time, their only thought was to run as far away as possible.
Unfortunately, it was still too late for some.
Before everyone cleared the explosion area, two deafening sounds reverberated in the surroundings.
The first sound came when the light ball exploded and the second came from Liu Bai’s explosion.
Initially, the effect of the light ball explosion only covered one hundred kilometres.
However, Liu Bai’s explosion pushed the poison from the light ball explosion and it soon exceeded one hundred kilometres.
"We have to run further." Yu Nianzhen shouted and grabbed Jiang Yue’s hand.
He pushed his qi to the limit and flew past several cultivators who hadn’t realised what was going on.
At the same time, several others including Zhu Bing also realised what had happened and flew faster.
Everyone felt like they were standing at the edge of a bottomless abyss with the wind blowing on their backs.
This feeling was incredibly scary and everyone knew they would surely die if they dared to stop.
For an incense stick of time, no one said anything.
They ran and didn’t stop until they arrived in front of the ruins of an enemy camp.
"We should be safe here." Xuan Ke said and heaved a sigh of relief.
"We are safe but..." Li Futian said but his brows were creased in a frown.
In the previous explosion, more than eighty allies were caught up.
Some were blown to pieces by Liu Bai’s explosion but most were poisoned to death by the poison in the foundation light balls.
"It’s over." Someone said after a long time.
Rather than speak, everyone turned to the screen in front of the spiritual pools’ blessed land.
On the screen, there were still three lists.
The first list was the Cangxing list which listed everyone in the Nine Treasures secret realm.
At this time, the list only showed one hundred and forty-three people.
Beside the Cangxing list was the bounty list.
After the previous attack, all the disciples of the Death Flower Ascension Front were killed.
Finally, the third list was the ranking.
"Brother Jiang is at the top of the list." Xuan Ke observed and looked at Jiang Yue in envy.
"Let’s go." Yu Nianzhen said and pulled Jiang Yue a little away from the group.
Although all the enemies were dead, Yu Nianzhen didn’t dare to take any chances.
After all, everyone in the group was a competitor.
He didn’t want to be stacked in the back by his previous allies.
"Something is happening." Someone exclaimed and everyone turned to the screen.
While they weren’t paying attention, the screen began to radiate a golden light.
A moment later, the light broke into one hundred and forty-three golden tokens before flying over to the survivors.
Right after, the screen disappeared and the blessed land opened.
"The spiritual pools have appeared." A cultivator from the Great Zhu empire shouted.
"Are the tokens for the spiritual pools?"
"We will know when we enter."
After that, everyone rushed towards the spiritual pools, wanting to grab the best before the others arrived.
"There are one hundred and forty-three spiritual pools in this blessed land." Meng Zihua counted.
"One for each of us." Bei Chengling agreed.
However, this observation caused the air to become tense.
From the beginning, everyone guessed that the ranking would determine the quality of the spiritual pool they would get.
At this time, most people couldn’t help but look at Jiang Yue.
Seeing the way that almost everyone was looking at Jiang Yue, Yu Nianzhen turned cold.
He stood in front of Jiang Yue with a sword in hand, daring the others to make a move.
"Fellow Daoist Yu and fellow Daoist Jiang have a very good relationship." Someone said with a hint of mockery in his voice.
"I have no time for this." Another said and immediately flew away to find his pool.
From a distance, one could see that the pools were numbered and each pool was surrounded by a natural defence formation.
Each formation was flawless and could only be opened using the token they previously received.
With the first person leaving, several others followed.
They rushed to their pools and used their tokens to gain access.
When a pool was occupied, the formation became translucent and those outside could no longer see inside.
"XiaoYue, let’s go." Yu Nianzhen said and pulled Jiang Yue.
As the two walked, they felt eyes on their back.
However, no one dared to approach them and they soon found the first pool.
"XiaoYue, go in first." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Do you want to come in with me?" Jiang Yue asked.
As they walked, he noticed that all the pools were golden.
However, some were a very light gold but his glowed very brilliantly.
He knew his pool had the most benefits and he wanted to share it with Yu Nianzhen.
"Don’t worry." Yu Nianzhen said and rubbed Jiang Yue’s hair.
"My ranking is not bad. My pool should be enough to break through to the core formation realm."
"Talking of breaking through..." Jiang Yue started and frowned.
There was no lightning in the Nine Treasures secret realm but they would face it as soon as they came out.
Based on previous times, Jiang Yue knew that Yu Nianzhen’s tribulation would be very powerful.
Remembering the previous times, Jiang Yue couldn’t help but worry.
"Have you forgotten? My body cultivation is already at the nascent soul realm level. We both shouldn’t suffer too much when breaking through."
"You are right." Jiang Yue said and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Azhen, I will see you in a few years."
"Will you miss me?" Yu Nianzhen asked with a mischievous look in his eyes.
"What do you think?" Jiang Yue rolled his eyes and threw himself into Yu Nianzhen’s arms.
Yu Nianzhen hugged him close and the two lingered for a long time.
"I will also miss you." Jiang Yue said.
A moment later, Jiang Yue stepped out of his husband’s arms and stepped into his pool.
Soon after, the formation turned translucent and Yu Nianzhen walked away.
Yu Nianzhen ranked fourth in the previous listing and was assigned the fourth spiritual pool.
The pool was about three hundred metres from Jiang Yue’s pool and Yu Nianzhen found it without much trouble.
After finding it, he didn’t waste time.
He used his token and quickly stepped into the pool.
As soon as he entered, Yu Nianzhen felt a rush of spiritual qi rushing into his body.
On instinct, his cultivation technique activated and the qi was quickly refined into his dantian.
"What a rich and pure qi." Yu Nianzhen marvelled.
He felt like his body was submerged in perfectly warm water and he couldn’t help but close his eyes in pleasure.
A few moments later, Yu Nianzhen opened his eyes and looked around.
In front of him, there was a pool filled with golden water.
The pool was about fifty square metres and there was a golden lotus floating in the middle.
"Qi gathering golden lotus." Yu Nianzhen exclaimed happily.
The qi gathering golden lotus was an extremely rare herb.
It could gather heaven and earth qi which made the places it grew a blessed land of cultivation.
However, gathering qi was only its most basic function.
From what Yu Nianzhen knew, a qi gathering golden lotus could purify heaven and earth qi making it easier to absorb and refine.
Most importantly, eating the seeds of a qi-gathering golden lotus had the effect of loosening a cultivator’s bottleneck.
"This is a great opportunity. I wonder if XiaoYue has the same." Yu Nianzhen wondered and frowned.
Although he knew that Jiang Yue should have a better opportunity, he still decided to keep some seeds for his lover.
After making that decision, Yu Nianzhen removed his clothes and entered the pool.
As expected, the liquid qi rushed into his body but Yu Nianzhen didn’t begin to cultivate right away.
Instead, he swam to the middle of the pool to collect lotus seeds.
A few breaths later, Yu Nianzhen collected nine seeds and swam back to the edge of the pool.
When he was comfortably settled, he took a deep breath and cleared his mind.
’XiaoYue, let’s do our best.’ He thought and began to cultivate.
