Sovereign to Immortality

Liu Zhifei's words were filled with confidence, causing everyone to be stunned. Following that, Zhou Beseng and Zhang Yueming revealed expressions of joy, and Yan Zhong gave him a meaningful look.    

    

Each tree had a sixty year old fruit, but there were no more than ten of them. Each fruit contained a trace of Essence Qi, and for cultivators at the fourth level of the Martial Disciple Stage, it was the best Spirit Fruit to be used to condense the Essence Qi in the body, and to break through the bottleneck and enter the great circle of perfection.    

    

If he could use the Scarlet Essence Fruit as a spiritual ingredient and add a variety of spiritual herbs and spiritual fruits, he would be able to refine a Scarlet Essence Pill in the hands of a pill refiner.    

    

Not only did this Scarlet Essence Pill retain the ability of the Scarlet Essence Fruit to break through the fourth bottleneck, the effect was even better than simply swallowing the Scarlet Essence Fruit. The scope of application was also expanded, and it was the best spirit pill for a great circle cultivator to use to increase their cultivation.    

    

Initially, he had been in high spirits like Liu Zhifei and believed that becoming a Successor Disciple in the future would not be a problem. However, in the past few years, his cultivation had progressed slowly, gradually pulling apart from Liu Zhifei and the others, making him a Successor Disciple. Although Liu Zhifei was now the leader, his desire to become a Successor Disciple had not been extinguished.    

    

"Is there really no other way? Perhaps this old man can give it a try!"    

    

Yang Junshan heard Yan Zhong's words and thought seriously for a moment. However, he eventually shook his head, and saw that everyone had an unwilling look on their faces. Yang Junshan knew that if he didn't completely get rid of this idea, there might be some bad feelings in his heart, so he sighed and a half-foot-long bronze mirror appeared in his hand.    

    

Yang Junshan held the bronze mirror and shone it in the direction of the Red Essence Fruit tree. A scarlet yellow light flew out from the mirror, and along the way, it passed through the stone forest. The surrounding situation seemed to have changed a little, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find it.    

    

The light became dimmer as they moved forward, and by the time they reached the Red Essence Fruit Tree, it had already completely disappeared. However, in the end, they had finally pushed aside a faint mist that covered the area in front of the fruit tree.    

    

Everyone behind Yang Junshan took in a breath of cold air. They saw a charred corpse lying on the ground behind the fruit tree. Because there was a layer of faint fog covering the area they passed by, they couldn't see clearly. Now that the fog had been cleared, they finally understood the hidden danger around the fruit tree.    

    

From the opening of the cave to now, apart from the second level warrior master standing beside Xiong Xiying, only they were able to enter the Five Elements Great Array. Yang Junshan did not believe that Xiong Xizhi would be unwise enough to not notice the dangers of this Scarlet Essence Fruit Tree, thus, there was only one possibility: the black corpse of the Great Perfection Stage cultivator had died while attempting to pluck the Scarlet Fruit Tree!    

    

Even Paragons would have to pay the price of their lives to get close to this Red Essence Fruit tree!    

    

Among these people, Yan Zhong was the oldest, so shshewas naturally the most knowledgeable. No one saw anything from this charred corpse, but he said, "This is a member of the Heavenly Wolf Sect. Her name is Qin An, and she fought with me earlier outside the cave, so he could be considered a direct disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Sect.    

    

Seeing this, Yang Junshan also took them and left. However, at this time, the Five Elements force had already condensed into a faint fog, circling around everyone and wearing down their spiritual power.    

    

Yang Junshan and Zhang Yue Ming, the two baleful qi cultivators, were still able to persevere, but Zhou Bicheng, the fourth level Pure Qi Cultivator, was unable to maintain the leakage of spiritual energy in his body due to the fluctuation in his state of mind when he saw the Scarlet Essence Fruit. Helplessly, Yang Junshan released a magnetic beam of light, temporarily isolating himself from the impact of the five elements.    

    

Everyone kept moving forward, and even Yang Junshan seemed to be having a hard time. From time to time, he would stop and carefully calculate something. Sometimes, he would even take out his mirror and shine it in different directions towards the stone forest.    

    

Although this underground cave was full of dangers, it had been sealed underground for hundreds of years, and the accumulated spiritual energy inside had produced countless treasures. Although this underground cave was full of dangers, but it had been sealed underground for hundreds of years, and the stored spiritual energy had stimulated countless treasures.    

    

Although Yang Junshan had been very careful with everyone, the more careful he was, the more unexpected the danger became. The moment Yang Junshan turned a stone pillar with everyone, a multicolored mist suddenly came from behind the other stone pillar. Yang Junshan's expression immediately changed, and he shouted, "Be careful!"    

    

As soon as his voice fell, a sandstorm swept over, making it hard for everyone to distinguish the situation in front of them. Soon after, another hail fell, the hail contained the power of the Sunflower Water, and after the hail hit, the power of the Sunflower Energy penetrated deep into the skin to wear down the spiritual energy in the body. Not only that, a warm breeze blew by.    

    

When the sandstorm came, Yang Junshan directly used his flying sand magic to counter it. Although he couldn't resist the formation force triggered by the multicolored mist, at least he could keep himself from being affected by the sandstorm. The following hail and hot wind was carried out by his tyrannical body.    

    

Everyone else had their own ways of dealing with it, as they were basically able to withstand the power of the formation. Only Zhangsun Xing and Yan Qingxi seemed to be in a sorry state due to their weak cultivation levels, but Yan Qingxi was always under the care of a Great Perfection Stage cultivator, so the situation was slightly better.    

    

As soon as they had dodged the multicolored mist, they heard Yang Junshan laugh, "Our luck seems to have come!"    

    

When everyone followed Yang Junshan's gaze, they saw a small cave on top of a towering stone pillar. However, this time, everyone was more cautious and followed closely behind Yang Junshan. No one dared to rush up.    

    

However, Yang Junshan just stood there without moving.    

    

Liu Zhifei noticed that something was wrong with Yang Junshan. He took two steps forward and asked in a low voice, "Little Yang, is there something wrong?"    

    

Yang Junshan gave a bitter smile, "There is a 'river' in front of us."    

    

"River, underground river?" Liu Zhifei looked ahead. From the cave to where everyone was standing, apart from a few stone pillars, there was nothing else blocking their path. There was no river!    

    

Yang Junshan saw the confusion on everyone's face, so he could only shake the mirror in his hand. The bright yellow light swept over, and the scene in front of him seemed to be wiped with a cloth, revealing the real scene behind it. First, there was the sound of flowing water, and then a three foot wide stream flowed out from the stone cave.    

    

Following the dissipation of the light from the mirror, the situation in front of him slowly began to recover. The stream disappeared without a trace, and the sound of flowing water also disappeared. All that was left was a rugged path between the stone pillars that led straight to the bottom of the cave.    

    

Liu Zhifei was startled. Although he didn't know what use this three foot wide stream could have, but the unfathomable mystery of the array master wasn't something he could fathom. So he asked, "Little Yang, is there something wrong with this small stream?"    

    

Yang Junshan rubbed his chin and said, "I'm afraid that most of the water-attribute power of the Five Elements Formations in this stone forest originated from this spring!"    

    

"Then can we pass?" Zhou Baicheng was much simpler and more direct.    

    

"I'll have to give it a try after all. However, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Senior Yan to help out this time!"    

    

Yan Zhong nodded and said, "Of course!"    

    

In reality, after entering the array, other than needing Yan Zhong to break through the barrier at the start, because of the existence of Yang Junshan, everyone had been able to avoid many traps that triggered the power of the array. This had rendered Yan Zhong, a Great Perfection Stage cultivator, useless.    

    

In reality, among the cultivators at the peak of the Five Elements formation, they could only rely on their own cultivation to withstand any danger. Even if they were lucky enough to survive, under the effects of the five elements, their spiritual energy was slowly dissipating.    

    

From this, he was able to see the role of formation masters. If he had Yan Zhong bring these people along, not to mention whether he could pass through the barrier, he would be able to pass through all the array traps along the way.    

    

Therefore, even though no one had experienced any danger along the way, Yang Junshan's status as an array master was becoming more and more important to everyone. No matter whether it was Liu Zhifei or Yan Zhong, neither of them dared to easily go against him.    

    

Under Yang Junshan's calculations, Yan Qingxi had turned her innate spirit technique, the Great White Gold Light Slash, into a golden ray of light, attracting as much water as possible from the surroundings.    

    

While Yang Junshan was ordering Yan Zhong and Liu Zhifei about something, Yang Junshan's expression suddenly changed as he looked in another direction.    

    

Liu Zhifei noticed something was wrong and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"    

    

Yang Junshan forced a smile and said, "It seems that other people have also noticed this cave!"    

    

This time was different from the previous times, Yang Junshan had used his full strength. That scarlet-yellow light penetrated all the invisible formations in the stone forest, and a tunnel unaffected by the illusion array was opened up all the way until it was more than one hundred zhang away. The three cultivators who were also standing not far from the stream also showed up.    

    

"It's Shixiong Xiong!"    

    

"That slightly weaker second level Martial Disciple is the Xiong Family's formation master, Xiong Xi Zhe!"    

    

"Why does the other Great Perfection Stage cultivator look so familiar? Isn't that the Great Perfection Stage cultivator from Hu Yao County?" Heh, it seems like the true disciples of the Heaven Shaking Sect and the Spirit Opening Sect have joined hands! "